I am on active Glamma duty tonight while Sarah and Dusty have an evening out together. It amuses me that they still ask me if I can watch Lennon on the days or nights they want to go out as a couple. I wonder how it has escaped them that it takes all I have [...]
Damn straight Keith Ternes!
I am a law abiding citizen, for the most part. I have a healthy respect for laws and law enforcement, most of the time. I may violate an occasional traffic law by exceeding the speed limit or by parking in a wrong location, but that is the extent of the daredevil criminal in me. I [...]
The trouble with tribbles…
I found myself thinking about James T. Kirk, the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, quite a bit today. I recognize the fact that I can roll his name off my tongue and can still remember his dramatic poses in Star Trek episodes dates me; but, in my defense, I was a mere child and my [...]
The yardstick…
I applaud Rosea Lake today for delivering a statement about judgment. Rosea is the college freshmen (all of 18 years old) who posted a photo on Tumblr she took for an AP high school art class in her senior year that illustrates judgments people make based on the length of a woman's skirt. The photo [...]
Apparently, I am a Betty…
I was reading an article on Huffington Post and I noticed a personality quiz that asked: Which First Lady Are You? My first inclination was aggravation that it wasn't asking me which President I was. As if my choices or personality could be so easily pigeonholed...pish-posh! Despite my consternation with the inherent limitations in the [...]
Necessary news…
I appreciate news stories that focus on the positive things going on in our community, state, nation, and world. Let's face it, there just aren't enough of them that make it into the paper. There are too many other things to cover -things like local political happenings, crime, weather concerns, sports, new laws, national issues, [...]
Wag more. Bark less.
I came across a saying today that is destined to become one of my new favorite sayings - Wag more. Bark less. It could not have come at a better time. I have spent the entirety of the weekend indoors with Mike, Cheyenne, and the furry clan trying to reclaim order in the house after [...]
THE NEW FORTY 