(This the third attempt to write this memorial this morning) I don't know why Open Salon is having these technological issues, but I wish they would be reparied. I had to sign in again was the main reason my previous post did not post.

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         There seems to be pervasive belief that social work is a great field to enter, despite the many stories that a social worker can encounter. There are still the "other" ones that are truly not what a family needs. But that is all beyond the sense of "wh… Read full post »

     It is still a mediocre world out there as long as people have to sludge through what is a meeting of the mind and survival. In the corporporate world where most things corporations produce are spun into gold and resold for profit the picture works. But for those that are… Read full post »

     I for most of my life would consider myself a deeply liberal person, I belive each person has his or hers own right to choose what he or she belives to be inherently  correct for his or her own person. I feel this should be for most things that imply… Read full post »

    Before I hit a nerve,

             I thought I could swerve.

Out of it's way, on to the curb

              The bus came, and under I went.

To see the lies t… Read full post »

     Accesorizing it all togehter is like getting a sixty piece orchestra together to play a concert that a famous conductor would be proud of. That is how I now envision my standard after completing near three years of adult college. I have been entriguged with the art of writing… Read full post »

      (Special note this is the second time this is being writen as when I went to post this to open salon my computer did not deliver it.) I am not quite sure if I left the computer too long, but what ever I did the post did not post. Thankfully… Read full post »

            As though I might want to forget certain events that I have endured, I might also like to reflect on other things that were eventful. Like...a beautiful day in my ever daunting youth, birds in the vicinity of a park, me young and pret… Read full post »

          What is about the subject of bullying that inspires so many to take to the keyboards and start typing? It could well be most anything, kids are a cruel and unusual blend of many things, those things could be biological, could be learned behaviors… Read full post »

         What is about being young and helpless that files into the lives of everday women? It is a site for sore eyes, and individuals affected by the sense of a woman that is angry is practically scorned for life. I should know, my mother was angry, not that… Read full post »

when life gives you lemons,  is one of the favorite epithates that serves to remind people all is not lost just different. People ponder different sceaniros with different people, why is it so easy to unwind at a bar or smoke a Jay with certain people. Like one of my childhood… Read full post »

There are some books that stay with us all of our lives, what is it that invokes the sense that the dire messages are true? Some are horrific messages that are a sense of being cursed by wealth, by ghosts that don't exist except to the mind that experiences them, and… Read full post »

             The song "My House" brings back some very congruent images of the time between 1960 the year I was born to 1965 the year my single mom would leave her homestead. I refer to it as a homestead because my grandparents actually ran… Read full post »

         Sensationalism appeals to the masses who put the hunch on everything that they cannot see, except what the media has exploited. The media in the case of Casey Anthony has been able to not been able to prove one thing except that people get paid extreme… Read full post »

                                              Courteous Citrus

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          As I was reading the headline on Salon.com the article is regarding a blog that was written by Scott Adams the creator of the cartoon, "Dilbert". His blog was "Pegs and Holes", in defense staff editor Mary Elizabeth Willams wants Scott Adams to c… Read full post »

As I was reading the Salon.com front page, the article was a Jack Pollack portrait of woman sheding tears with caption reading; the story line of Mom who is crying and wonders if how it is affecting her children. She quickly discusses why she is crying, and her reasons are all… Read full post »

        First I want to say a big Congratulations! to Elton John and his partner for making the life changing choice to have a child. Now, being that there story is not the typical, as they are two men, as I write this, I draw a (hum) sense in the back… Read full post »

Who are you? you may know and you may not, are you like so and so a bright new star Selena Gomez, or what about Justin Beiber? They make news every single day, they are both smart and young and hotter than a bee-hive. But that is what makes Pop-Culture so… Read full post »

                                                 Oh America

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These are some of my memorable songs that I enjoyed time after time, afterall in those days time seemed endless. Here these songs still exist as if kept in a capsule of time that has been carefully stored in my mind and heart. They are songs that I grew up forever… Read full post »

As I read what this author had to say on growing up in a New Jersey community not far from where I came up myself, I found myself resonation with her concepts. Some of my earliest memories of food is of eggs, I still on occasion when the memory creeps up… Read full post »

Form the innocent picutures in my mind,

the expressions I yearn to see.

But are now gone, the soft umbrella

I come landing on, everytime it rains.

Is in your smile, gentle and warm

I have learned of your gracious manner.

I see a robin hen, poker… Read full post »

Relax, don't get your hairs in a bunch when  your male child responds favorably to a pretty toy. The child hasn't been cued in such a way that he feels controlled to feel subjected to such bias. A child is merely interested in being entertained and happy as far as the… Read full post »

In all honesty here, I do not feel Sarah Palin has any collateral damage or fall out from the tradgedy of Tuscon Arizona. It was an awful event, the sense of words are a strong reminder of what so many of us are taught as children. The old nursery rhyme sticks… Read full post »