Category Archives: REALITY

Connecticut moves one step closer to a Big Brother state, making individual rights and reason a responsibility of government overseers. Don’t like the way someone looks at you?  Make a stink about it and they’ll make it a crime and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I do wish you all a day of grace and gratitude and love for all the children of the earth. Continue reading →

Not feeling real good about this new CBS show. I’ve watched it several times, twice tonight for the back to back season finale.  It’s about a serial killer who only killed other killers, had a horrendous experience at age three, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The expected phone call comes unexpectedly, in the middle of working with a new customer named Sally.  The phone rings and I tell her that I’m very sorry but I have to leave.  My mother’s name is Sally, I tell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Too danged cute not to share (put on sound):The duck and the dog.wmv Continue reading →

As bottling time of some of last year’s harvest wine begins, I see the beginnings of the new year’s harvest.  This is the quince bush that can produce jelly or wine.

A day for reading, writing, paying monthly bills.  But this comes out of the blue: We have 56 chairs in this household. I may well be one of the few who rented a tent for a baby shower but didn’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think I’ve several posts over the year just like this one.  Peter, Paul and Mary on PBS.  Of course I watch until they get to the inevitable point: Puff the Magic Dragon.  Someday I’ll learn to flip the channel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Similar middle-class backgrounds and age group may sustain us through a merging into marriage of two Scorpios when one is in the ‘up’ mode, the other ‘down’.  But eighteen years of wedlock also emphasize the differences and luckily we may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Can the yearning to belong be even half the feeling of wanting to be different? Continue reading →

E-mail forwarded to me from spouse hard at work: "Take Your Child to Work Day registration extendedThe registration deadline for Take Your Child to Work Day has been extended to Monday, April 21. Some events require pre-registration due to space … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, and it’s even funnier the second or third time around, but I think there was one I hadn’t seen and I’m glad I caught it tonight.  It’s up there with the Mary … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have to write a short story, place some press releases, plaster a town with meeting notices, write up a dignified brief bio (cramming sixty years of achievement into a three sentence of most stellar successes), reread two essays, clean … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Saw three bluebirds this morning!  A nesting pair that are checking out the bluebird box.  Unfortunately, I think it needs repair or replacement because last year we had them but they abandoned the nest and we’ve forgotten to fix whatever … Continue reading → Continue reading →