there is something more precious than money or things- and it is something that we never seem to have enough of- and that’s time. there are only 24 hours each day and it never seems to be enough time to cram everything in we want to do- but why?

The winter solstice is here! That’s right- the ancient celebration that morphed into the biggest consumeristic experience of the year! It is the ancient celebration that cmas is based on- as the ancient roman powers that be assimilated pagan customs into their version of Christianity (much like the borg.) so what exactly [...]

i am not a terribly social person. i don’t like small talk and playing social games that many seem to enjoy. i much prefer intimate settings where folks can get to know each other and talk about interesting things- and i think that’s why i enjoy blogging so much. i don’t [...]

Today’s post is short and I hope sweet, sweet with truth and meaning. This is the third “anniversary” of my son, Kelsey’s death and this is all I have in me….
Why we should care? A race related post on another blog resulted in a heated exchange, as they so often do. The question was asked [...]

Today is just another day..but its also the anniversary of the day I came screaming into the world..a month early I might add. My inbox is already over-flowing with birthday wishes from various websites where I spend my money or have an account of some sort.
I really like the ones where I put my age [...]

I declared a war on Christmas about 17 years ago.
Well, not exactly a “war” in the Bill’o sense. But a war in the sense of I had to boycott the “trappings” of the holiday.
Despite being an atheist, I actually love Christmas music. I like seeing the lights and trees. Hey, I even [...]

dawn is busy making gingerbread houses this weekend- so i am filling in for her. ’tis the season and all that- and everyone knows i am out to spread good cheer! so- i thought i would write about christmas cookies because it is a tradition that my family has had [...]

Today I have been sober for 25 years. At my first AA meetings, the old men would look me up and down and dismissively grumble “little girl, I spilled more than you ever drank.” It took a while, but I finally learned to respond “well if you hadn’t spilled so much, you might have got [...]

Well it is that time of year again for me folks~ life wants to suck the breath out of me, and I am glaring back asking: “you talking to me?”
All around me madness seems to be the norm, lives are being taken to serve peace, lives are taken because they are “inconvenient”, and the way [...]

Co-operation … makes it happen
Co-operation … working together
Dig it!
Co-operation … makes it happen
Co-operation … working together
Funny how prophetic those words from Sesame Street, trying to teach young children a skill they know apparently already know. An interesting study comes out of Yale this month, babies as young as 6 months pick “nice” over “mean”. Babies [...]

i was having a conversation over email with my buddy spadoman today and many things occurred to me (he has a knack for getting me to think)- folks are very disheartened these days.  with good reason- but never in our history before has the future looked quite so bleak.  now, i know that there [...]

In 3 days, 5 hours, and 54 minutes, my family and I will begin living in denial.
Hey, it works for the President. Why not me?
Of course, it could be argued that the last person on the planet who should be living in denial is GWB, but I digress.
When you have a loved one in [...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….
In the month of February in the year 1988 two boy children were born in this, our great city. One white, born with great physical limitations, condemned to a life of seemingly endless pain and sorrow. The second black, also born with what some [...]

Part V: Rampant Sexism
(Women at Risk: The Dangers and Consequences of a Christian Republic)
By Donatra, Shakti and Katie
Section 1
“Women whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was in the kitchen and their chief roll in life to beget children for [...]

On Saturday, October 27th, my family and I will start the 30 day countdown for our third Iraq deployment. I “affectionately” call it, Iraq Deployment 3.0.
Unlike his first deployment, that lasted about 6 months, and his last deployment, that lasted 12 months, this deployment will last “at least 15 months”, but “not more than [...]