Memories Of My Mother
I remembered my mother so vividly just now, As I zipped up the front of my long green robe. A gift from her one merry Christmas morning, I remember how I loved the color, its depth, The feel of the velvet soft between my hands, Though no softer than the cheek I kissed in thanks. I remember her weekend visits. We would rise whenever we pleased, and I More...
Weed
My Bud(dy) Humans have lived on this planet between 50,000 and 2,000,000 years. Weed has been criminalized since 1937. According to informed sources (Google), on the day the act was passed, the first “Marijuana More...
Can You Imagine
No last goodbye That your phone rings and you answer it to find that your husband or wife has been in a terrible accident and is not expected to live. “Hurry!” they tell you, and a friend rushes you More...
The New Christianity of Hatred and Exclusion
Lord, hear our prayer. My parents were both converts to Catholicism. My father had been raised Methodist and my mother Episcopalian. All three of us were baptized shortly before my first birthday, and I and my three More...
You Find Out Who Your Friends Are
Dirty Doings in the Big House Democrats voting for: Jason Altmire (PA) John Barrow (GA) Dan Boren (OK) Tom Boswell (IA) Ben Chandler (KY) Mark Critz (PA) Joe Donnelly (IN) Kathy Hochul (NY) Ron Kind (WI) Larry Kissell More...
Thinking Outside The Box (A Satire)
Go out in Style! (Transformationalcemetarydesign) Two of my all-time favorite sci fi movies, “Soylent Green” and “Logan’s Run”, deal with a humanity that is running out of time, space and resources. More...
A Descent Into Irrelevancy
[Is this our future? There’s no denying it, is there? We live in the grandest country in the world. Sound familiar? I’m sure that’s what we’d all like to think – the way we grew up thinking – and it’ll More...
Profile of a Sociopath
Congressman Poe and Governor Mitt Romney (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was so inspired by watching the then presumptive, and now actual, Republican candidate for the office of the Presidency, I did a Google search More...
