Beautiful Day
Spent this beautiful day mostly outdoors walking or hanging with my critters except for an hour-long video conversation with a friend in New Zealand this morning. My first “to do”this morning was getting my finger poked to find out my INR level. (It’s perfect but I’m on an antibiotic for a UTI I didn’t…
Slimming Down Painlessly
Despite the fact that I haven’t played pickle ball or wally ball in months, I’m slimming down, without much additional effort. I’m elated! Two days ago I realized my jeans were heading toward my heels as I walking around, so I put on a pair two sizes smaller and realized I could pull them…
Tough Task: Pulling Up Cork Flooring
The 3/4″ cork flooring in my bathroom was glued over at least two other layers of linoleum flooring, making the accumulated elevation of the bathroom close to an inch higher than the hallway outside it. I looked at it for more than a week, wondering if I should try to pry it up because…
DE-Day Comes Every Year… #DeForestKelley
DE-Day (the date DeForest Kelley passed away) comes every year & every year I get down in the dumps. But this year I decided to share the JOY of knowing him on Facebook with almost 50 images from the times I spent with him and Carolyn. I posted the post to western pages,…
Offensive, Defamatory Speech that’s all too Commonly Heard
I wonder at what age I began to separate myself from the “prevailing wisdom” of my family members. As kids, we’re exposed to all kinds of nonsense that we accept as confirmed truth simply because we don’t know anything different; we only know the viewpoints and behaviors of our nuclear families and a few…
Rested My Mind this Weekend–“Peace-ing” Works!
I’ve always been a “producer”. My mind is always busy thinking, discerning, plotting, working out ways forward. It’s a good skill/ability/inclination, most of the time. But sometimes–especially in times like the one we’re in right now–it can be a damned pain in the arse. Because as long as a significant percentage of…
Disrupted Sleep Patterns
I’ve heard that disrupted sleep patterns are prevalent right now with all that’s going on with COVID-19 and mass public protests. I’m right there with ya! It’s frustrating. Maddening, even. My heart wants to be out there protesting with the hundreds of thousands of people decrying police and citizen assassinations of George…
White Male Supremacists are Cowards
White male supremacists are bullies because they’re cowards. They’re scared spit-less that when their reign of terror ends–and it will–they’ll be treated by us the way they treated us–their employees, their wives, their female children, and all of their other pawns and “underlings”. Many rich white people are the same way. They know…
The Eve of Destruction?
In 1965, when I was a teenager, there was a song by PF Sloan, sung by Barry McGuire, going around that resonated with an entire generation of social justice advocates of all ages. It was called The Eve of Destruction. Here are some of the lyrics: Think of all the hate there is…
Back to “Square One” The REAL Michael Jackson Story
Last night I watched “Square One: New Evidence in Michael Jackson Allegations” which was the exact opposite of what I was expecting (and dreading) to see. It confirmed my suspicions 100%. To be clear: I never believed the sexual predator/pedophilia allegations against Michael Jackson. So when I saw a blurb called…