The Way It Seems Is Not Always The Way It Is
It seems God--or someone--is trying to send me a message. It came through loud and clear over the past 48 hours. I think the message is "Stay Home!" Here's how the coded message came through in very attention-getting ways. I had just spent a wonderful week in...
It's been just five days short of a year, when at the end of election day, 11/8/2016, I lapsed into the stupor that I still find myself in--the one that has kept me from being able to write blog posts, or anything else more than a Facebook comment, except for...
Okay, I have to admit that my comatose state has hardly improved since I first reported it back in February...what?? That was almost four months ago. See what I mean? Time keeps slipping by and I remain catatonic at best, except for the frequent bursts of horror...
I admit it. I've been comatose since January 20. The U.S. Presidential inauguration still has me shaking my head in disbelief, and more to the point, horror. After the election back in November of last year (2016), I kept thinking something would happen to...
Hygge. A word I've been seeing more and more and didn't know what it was until I heard an NPR program devoted to it and what it means, where it comes from, why it's good, and how to get it. First, the pronunciation: "hue-geh." If you want a more detailed and audio...
Sometimes--like now when we in the United States have just doomed ourselves and the rest of the world to a four-year nightmare that promises to undermine and destroy any progress we have made for people, animals, and the land--providing the planet survives this siege...
I had planned to post a piece with this title weeks ago--when the latest hurricane came through, as "cone of uncertainty" is a weather term, of which I had not been aware until a friend in another state emailed to ask if I was in the "cone of uncertainty"--the...
A Place to Call Home...the name of an Australian TV series that airs on PBS stations in the US, The title would seem to apply to a lot of us. It does to me, at least, and in talking with others, as well as from reading articles on the subject, I know that especially...
It seems we in South Carolina missed September this year as it's now October 4, but feels more like what September 4 used to feel like, back when there was September. We had a lengthy August this year--it took over what used to be September, or so it seems....