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Opinionated writer with hopes for a better future for all plus a big helping of cynicism.

• THE FUNNIEST COMPUTER GLITCH – EVER

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-24 • ( 16 )

  This hasn’t been a funny year, so I probably needed a good laugh. I didn’t expect the laugh to come from a wild and crazy computer glitch. Generally, computer glitches are not funny. They make me crazy and I wind… Read More ›

• IF THAT’S NOT WHO WE ARE, WHO ARE WE?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-24 • ( 9 )

  Every person who gets interviewed on television says the same thing using almost identical words. It’s our current American mantra, that those hooligans who rioted in our Capitol are not really who we are. Not really. Maybe a few of… Read More ›

• FUN FOTOS OF BARKING TREES?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-24 • ( 2 )

  CFFC: Bark – Tree Bark or Dog Bark I know our trees don’t really bark, unless one is full of birds who are hungry. Then they don’t so much bark as squawk! I think we are lucky the trees can’t bark…. Read More ›

• MACRO FLOWERS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-24 • ( 4 )

  FOTD – February 24 –Macro Flowers I haven’t used my macro lens in a while, probably because nothing is blooming. My orchid is sending up shoots and I’m ignoring it except for watering because the two times I tried to… Read More ›

• WORLD SHARING AS FEBRUARY DRAWS TO ITS END

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-23 • ( 5 )

  SHARE YOUR WORLD 2-23-2021 Funny how fast the world changes. Yesterday, hospitals were no longer allowed to distribute COVID-19 vaccinations but oddly enough, today that rule has vanished like chaff before the wind. I suspect I’m not the only one who… Read More ›

• DON’T PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE (UNLESS YOU WANT TO)

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-23 • ( 10 )

  

  A Photo a Week Challenge: Off-Center You absolutely shouldn’t put the picture in the center of the photograph except when that’s the right place to put it. The “rules” of photography are not laws etched in stone. They are suggestions, sometimes… Read More ›

• PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES AND KNOWING ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-23 • ( 10 )

  The first time I went to the Vineyard, it was my honeymoon — to my first husband and the year was 1965. I didn’t know anything about the Vineyard. I hadn’t even known it was there, but we were looking… Read More ›

• WHY ARE WE SO SCARED OF SOCIALISM?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-22 • ( 12 )

  I am bewildered about American reactions to socialism. Maybe it’s because we think it’s Communism without the fascist dictator. Having spent ten years living in a socialist country, what we had were higher taxes with free high-quality health care. No… Read More ›

• WHAT DOES CHARLIE BAKER HAVE AGAINST WORCESTER COUNTY?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-22 • ( 10 )

  Massachusetts isn’t a huge state. We aren’t Texas or even New York where there are miles of open country between cities. Basically, we have one city — Boston — and a lot of small towns. You can drive from the… Read More ›

• SOLOMON’S SEAL – AN EARLY SPRING FLOWER

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-21 • ( 7 )

  FOTD – February 21 –SOLOMON’S SEAL Solomon’s Seal was a wildflower, but I love it and I took bunches of it from the woods and planted them along the other side of my driveway. They still grow wild, but I… Read More ›

• WALKING SHADOWS: HOW MUCH WORSE CAN THINGS GET?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-20 • ( 2 )

  

  “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ― William… Read More ›

• AN INJURED SQUIRREL GETS A GOOD FEED

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 2021-02-20 • ( 16 )

  This isn’t the first injured squirrel I’ve had spend a lot of time in the feeder. Sometimes, I think they managed to escape a hawk or some other larger predator. But squirrels fight each other too as do most other… Read More ›