Tale of the Uppity Uterus

In the beginning, there was a uterus. Of course there was a penis, too. We won’t get into the argument about which one came first but we will agree that both found the world a lonely place and came together for… Read full post »

Last week I reported that there was a bomb blast at #Occupy Salem Oregon. An hour after putting up my post, I decided that this should have been covered by local media so I searched out the local newspapers. I found three references to the e… Read full post »

Around 2:30 yesterday, a bomb was thrown from a car into Wilson Park which is now occupied by several demonstrators. The bomb apparently was thrown into an area where there were no people. No one was hurt but it did cause a stir among the Occupy Salem group. At this time… Read full post »

Written by one who has been there.

You wake up in the morning. It is dark. You woke up partly because your belly is empty and partly because an alarm inside your head went off telling you that you had already been too long in this… Read full post »

Whatever you think of the Wall Street protests, you have to admire the brilliance of some of the innovative additions to protests that have been added to the collective consciousness. The People’s Microphone and the general assembly with its wriggling fingers or crossed… Read full post »

An estimated 27 people stayed over in Wilson Park Monday night. Wilson Park is adjacent to the State Capital building. State police han… Read full post »

Following is a draft of a new Constitutional ammendment that is self explanitory. Well over 180,00 have signed on to it already. The link at the end is where you can sign on to this worthy cause.

"No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be… Read full post »

Occupy Salem Oregon started out on the state capitol steps with a growing crowd listening to speeches and instructions for the march. When march time came, everyone took to the… Read full post »

Following is a draft of a new Constitutional ammendment that is self explanitory. Well over 100,00 have signed on to it already. The link at the end is where you can sign on to this worthy cause.

"No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be… Read full post »

For years the process of division has gone on in this country. We have become divided in so many ways. Workers were told that environmentalists were going to take their jobs without regard to the fact that an organism needs clean air, water and food to survive and without noting that… Read full post »

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We are in the midst of a revolution whether you like it or not. If you have your senses about you, then you are hoping that it succeeds. If not, you must be one of the 1% or have been deluded into thinking that they will "take care" of you with… Read full post »

The issues discussed in this piece will be of interest to many different fields from politics to business, science and agriculture. It will be news indeed to most of you who probably have not heard much about this topic. The link to "Occupy Wall Street" will also be news.

On January 16,… Read full post »

Before you enjoy the main feature, here are the links to the rest of the series:  

BJ, short for Brother John, was a tall man with broad shoulders. His long dark hair was invariably bunched up behind his head in a tangled arrangement similar to a bird’s nest. In fact, a person could tell where he had slept last by examining the contents of the… Read full post »

This is the second poem I wrote on my birthday from the Toad Hall Series. Links to the other parts of the series follow the poem.

              &n… Read full post »

Gandalf and Holly moved to St. Johnsbury while I hitched back to the West Coast to get together some money and essentials to load into my VW bus and bring back to Vermont. I did not want to be unprepared for the cold weather I was told I would… Read full post »

I had quite a choice of characters to choose from in writing this part. Just a few were chosen as some have already been written about and some will be. With this being the first time my experiences have seen paper and the actual incidents occurring almost 40 years… Read full post »

The names have been changed because of the passing of time and a forgetful mind, not to protect the innocent. There were no innocent.

Living in a teepee, as you saw in the last post, had some distinct disadvantages along with the inherent advantages. The location of the teepe… Read full post »

 When I first saw Toad Hall, I was coming off a dusty road trip that spanned the continent. I had been riding the nation’s highways and byways using only my thumb to propel myself from Berkeley, CA, to Norton, VT. With a huge population of about 200, the town was perched… Read full post »

  My last post mentioned Toad Hall, a cabin in the Vermont woods where I spent the winter. It brought back so many memories of that time and place that I thought it would be good to do a piece on it. 

As I said in the other piece, Toad Hall was… Read full post »

 In 1974 I was moving around the country on my thumb when I came across a group of people living on some property bought by hippies during the ‘60’s. For some unfathomable reason, I decided to stay there despite the temperatures that plunged into the minus column on a daily basis… Read full post »