Breast Cancer and me is kind of like Soupy Sales and me:  It never really happened.  But I do know one thing, contrary to what our resident "Doctor-in-the House" maintains.  Several things actually:  I went to nursing school, an intensive kind of course.  But I flunked out wh… Read full post »

You may not believe this, which is why it's tagged fiction.  But so much of my life has been unbelievable that we've learned to stretch our belief mechanism.

Soupy Sales once asked me for a date.  Well....... he asked Bestoink Dooley to ask me if I would go out with him. … Read full post »

Yes, Ma'am! they say

 When I speak sometimes.

Yes, Ma'am! and a little

Nod of the head.

 Yes, Ma'am! he said.

Ma'am?  I said.

Yes, Ma'am!

Sure would like to get

in your pants, Ma'am!

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The first video of the death of Neda in Iran was posted on OS by one of us. (I don’t remember who, sorry. Please let us know who you are for full credit here.) Since that time there have been any number of disclaimers and many new versions that leave out… Read full post »

I dreamed one night in June 

That you dreamed one night in June

I wanted you so badly

And you wanted me so badly

That we willed ourselves together,

Met, amazed, in the middle

And made love all over the sky,

Gemini

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Dear Heart:

You are right.  I may have smeared a lot of innocent people when I sent my regrets about the reunion breakfast.    And then the ones who are not innocent may find what it's like to be lumped under labels simply because of their high school -- as so… Read full post »

Heart’s Prayer

Help me keep my heart large, Holy One.

Large enough to cherish and contain

Beloved Earth, our home.

Great enough to hold and keep great eagles, elk and mountain sheep,

Bears, big cats, small otters, beavers, mink,

All the ones who graze and swim and fly and creep,

All… Read full post »

There are two kinds of Republicans that I can see -- perhaps more.  But the majority of them fall into two Categories -- THE RICH ONES and THE GULLIBLE ONES.

Rush Windbag takes every opportunity to tell us "How liberals think," as if he could actually think himself.  He's usually wrong… Read full post »

Our Water, Being Flushed down the Dra1n by Chemical Farming!

Conserve water by restoring the cycles of nature! Huge cornfields with bare earth between rows only allow immediate evaporation! Trees hold and retain water within the forested areas. We need billions of acres of ground cover and mulch, tre… Read full post »

I had always considered owning a milking animal.  I have loved cows ever since our ranch days, but don't have enough land to support one, so when I saw three free goats on Freecycle, I called my friend who went and got them.  They are purported to be Nigerian dwarfs, but… Read full post »

    I  had lost my love and my job as Atlanta's first female film director with all its glamour and prestige. I was on the verge of losing my house because I couldn't pay the mortgage.  My humiliation was complete.  Intense pain called for me to quiet it so… Read full post »

When Mable was a new young bride, she and Hazel climbed the trail above Soldier Creek looking for splendid views and wildflowers and berries.

It had been a good summer. Plenty of hay in the haystacks, plenty of potatoes and onions in the cellar. The canning had been hell.… Read full post »

I didn't mean to do it, really.  I don't drink all that much unless invited.  But one hot Saturday morning, I took some stuff to the recycling center.  As I put some cat food cans into the aluminum bin, I noticed a lot of beer cans there.  "Somebody had a party… Read full post »

Our food supply is at the mercy of the oil companies. Our country has fragmented the ancient processes of nature because of cheap oil. In October, Michael Pollan, revered nature and garden writer addressed our new President as “Farmer-in-Chief” in a 23-page article in the New York… Read full post »

My young life's proudest moment came by surprise. My daddy's solemn face said, "Your Uncle Joe is coming over in about an hour and we want to talk to you." He wouldn't tell me more. God! I couldn't imagine why I would be in trouble with Pete. Did Eloise  and I break a… Read full post »