Lies, lies, lies and more lies
Saturday, diary virgin, and stinking cold notwithstanding, I had to write tonight, so please be kind. In September last year Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, two Americans, along with Kenneth Bigley,...
View ArticleWhat's your bliss?
The world is full of colour and shades of grey, not black or white. Life too often is cerebral and we take little time to smell the roses along the way. Politics, above all else, is thought and...
View ArticleIt's time to change the narrative
I have read with great interest over the last few weeks numerous diaries on a number of different blogs that point out how it is virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the nomination for the...
View ArticleI just had a heart attack, ladies look out.
Yes, quite true, I just had a myocardial infarction. Thursday evening was great with the return of eldest son from a year of teaching math at a school in Papua New Guinea. Friday evening when...
View ArticleToo much stuff - a rant
As Christmas grows closer, with its inevitable cargo of stuff to be handed out and received, I find that I am fed up to my back teeth with our consumer society.
View ArticleIt’s the fiddly bits that drive us crazy
Ok, so it’s Christmas Eve and a little different this year, as younger son and DIL are hosting Christmas dinner and I’m in charge of producing the hors d’oeuvre and a trifle for 22 people ……….should be...
View ArticleUpdated: Today I learned my husband has AIDS
This will be a brief diary and I hope you will forgive me if I don't hang around after I hit the publish button. I will return tomorrow. Tonight I must cry and grieve. On Sunday my husband had a...
View ArticleThis year I will wear a poppy for the last time
I found this so moving and so apt that I wanted to share...........go to the following link at the Guardian, a British newspaper and read a WW2 veteran's thoughts on the world and politics today:...
View ArticleGreat Canadian Migrations: The Tar Sands Pipeline
I am posting this for the enjoyment of Daily Kos members - a parody of the benefits of the Tar Sands Pipeline. In full disclosure, I should mention I am related to the actor in the...
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