What should you buy? by Rich Paschall Should you buy chocolate? Perhaps flowers would be a better choice. Or maybe you should get both. It is so hard to say. You could always have a candlelight dinner with a bottle… Read More ›
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IT’S BLACK FRIDAY, SO GUESS WHAT WE ARE DOING?
Nothing. I’m trying to decide whether to make lamb curry tonight or tomorrow night — I think tomorrow — and whether or not I need a sweater. It was really warm this morning, but it’s getting colder as I sit… Read More ›
NOT EXACTLY A NORMAN ROCKWELL THANKSGIVING
For those of you who think Norman Rockwell only painted idealized images of white people, he didn’t. His idealized images are popular, but he painted many other, harder-edged pictures. The soft and sweet ones were done for magazines who would… Read More ›
THE WEEK THAT WAS – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Just about everyone is shaking their heads as if they’ve just awoken from a long and troubling dream. We have a President-Elect and his name is NOT Trump. If we try to tunnel back through our dreams which began on… Read More ›
ARMISTICE DAY (VETERAN’S DAY IN 2020)
Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day, celebrated the end of the first world war. The fields in Europe where the war was fought were full of wild red poppies and for many years, red poppies were the symbol of World War… Read More ›
IN NINE MONTHS TIME
The wild party went on all day and I’m assuming all night, though by then I was trying to catch some ZZZs after a week of watching vote counting. They all were there, Americans, masked. Body to body. Dancing. Drinking…. Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD AS “THE ELECTION” APPROACHES
Share Your World 10-27-2020 It’s hard to believe that we are ending the tenth month of this year. One helluva year. We never imagined it would be this bad, this long, this ugly, this scary. Anxieties are high and many… Read More ›
AUTUMN CRISPNESS – FOTD – GARRY ARMSTRONG
FOTD – Autumn Crispness More of yesterday’s photographs with a bit of Halloween. Tomorrow, the temperature is dropping and we’ll get the crispness too. I think by Halloween, it will finally feel like Halloween.
A MID-OCTOBER WORLD SHARING EVENT!
Share My World 10-13-2020 Suddenly, it’s the middle of October. Nearly the middle. Middle-ish. Still almost no rain and the little we have gotten is barely enough to dampen a small garden, much less water a forest. The birds are… Read More ›
TODAY IS NATIONAL ASSHOLE AWARENESS DAY!
There has never been a dearth of assholes in our world, but I think this past year has raised it to a level of importance it never previously possessed.The assholes are everywhere! They are the ones who still think the… Read More ›
BLUE BIRDS ARE HERE. CAN HAPPINESS BE FAR BEHIND? Marilyn Armstrong
I kept wondering why I never saw a bluebird. Ever. Not here or in New York. And I know they live here. This morning I got up and looked out my back windows and the deck was full of bluebirds!
MEMORIAL DAY: THEN AND NOW, THE DAY AFTER – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Time changes everything. It’s a given. Memorial Day is no different and that’s a shame. When I was a kid, Memorial Day was usually a family affair. It seems as if it was always sunny and warm for the gathering… Read More ›
