Category Archives: Current events
Cylons Among Us
BufferThe Koch brothers are actually succeeding in manipulating public opinion in America. I’m happy to finally learn this truth, because I’ve been wondering in writing and aloud what we in America can be thinking about when we embrace self-destructive policies. … Continue reading
Good Job Mom
My dear friend realized a lifelong dream when she married a lovely guy about six years ago, and became a step-mother to his son and daughter. They were eight and seven at the time. Two little precocious, blond-haired, blue-eyed cherubs. … Continue reading
Coyotes Come to Call
The first time I heard them, they sounded like a pack of hungry puppies. They yipped, wailed, barked and howled into the night: a convocation of coyotes. I obeyed a sudden, irresistible urge to howl along with them. Here in … Continue reading
Doublespeaking Speaker
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that our Speaker is employing doublespeak. According to Dictionary.com, here is the definition: evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
Meet me on South Street
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the South Street Renaissance, and I’m thrilled that my visit coincides with the festivities. I’m sure South Street will have changed in the year and a half I’ve been gone, but not as much as it did between the seventies and eighties. Continue reading
Greed is good, so is ignorance (not)
Tom Wolfe’s novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, introduced me to the phrase, masters of the universe. Wolfe’s novel opened my eyes to the immensity of corruption and greed within our financial and political systems. That same year, Michael Douglas … Continue reading
