STATE OF MY NATION – RDP SATURDAY I have forbidden television viewing today. It’s the Republican opportunity to deny everything and I don’t think I can handle it. Worse, this might be the broadcast that finally makes Garry kick the… Read More ›
Ragtag Daily Prompt
OUT MY BACK DOOR – Marilyn Armstrong
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Out My Backdoor I look out my backdoor a lot. It’s a small deck leading to a rather small lawned area that when we were younger and more socially active, was the scene of many summertime barbecues,… Read More ›
PRUDENT IS UNAMERICAN — Marilyn Armstrong
Prudent. Maybe like the Impeachment Hearings? Prudent seems like a very strange word these days. Here we are — Garry and I — and the impeachment hearings are on the TV and we’re having little conversations about how people feel… Read More ›
HOW MANY MAGNANIMOUSES MAKE UP A CONFUSION? – Marilyn Armstrong
Magnanimous but Confused It is a beautiful day. Cool, comfortable, with a shining sun and no rain predicted. It doesn’t mean it won’t rain. It just means it’s less likely to rain than if they had predicted rain and anyway,… Read More ›
HAPPENSTANCE JUST HAPPENS – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Wednesday – HAPPENSTANCE It has been one of those weeks. We were supposed to go away at the end of the week to celebrate being alive and surviving this year, but happenstance really happened big-time. First, I got sick. I… Read More ›
INFURIATION, RAGE, ANGER, AND OTHER BLOOD PRESSURE-RAISING MOODS – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP-Sunday–INFURIATE Ever since Garry said he was sure I was going to have a stroke if I didn’t calm down, I have calmed down. Mostly by having all of these rage-filled battles online rather than on the phone. I didn’t… Read More ›
COUNTRY GARDENS BETWEEN STORMS – Marilyn Armstrong
AMELIORATING AND JUDICIOUS WILD PLANTING OF FLOWERS IN THE TINY TOWN OF UXBRIDGE Our lawns are essentially wild,, too. I can’t turn on the hose because that pipe broke a few years ago and I haven’t figured out where to… Read More ›
EVENTUALLY MAKES A LONG LIST – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP SATURDAY : Eventually Be there anyone amongst us who doth not make lists. Not all my lists are written, mind you. Some are mental. I have a wedding coming up. It’s a very big piece of my “eventually” list and… Read More ›
HACKED AND HATING IT – Marilyn Armstrong
We Did It! — Maybe? RDP Monday: PRINCE I’m sorry. Didn’t use the “word of the day” because this needed to go out to everyone I could send it to. No matter how little you pay attention to what’s going on in… Read More ›
ASTRALLY SWINGING ON A STAR – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Monday: ASTRAL I started reading the news this morning and it was so depressing, I decided to skip it and go straight to music. Swinging on a start sounds like a good choice, don’t you think? This is the… Read More ›
CHANGE IS ALWAYS ON THE WAY – Marilyn Armstrong
CHANGE IS ALWAYS If only we could find that perfect, sweet, happy place and just sink into it. Stay there and never have to deal with change again. But of course, that’s impossible, isn’t it? Because if the world doesn’t… Read More ›
A FEW PICTURES OF BIRD USING NEW VERSIONS OF TOPAZ STUDIO 2 – Marilyn Armstrong
PREPARE! So I prepared a few pictures of a friendly little house finch. This one lives in the maple tree in front of the house, so I see him a lot. For some reason, he tries to climb in our… Read More ›
TOO MANY MURDER MYSTERIES – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Thursday: PROXY As soon as whoever it is — usually, a child or grandchild of some older person shows up clutching a proxy in hand, evil will be done. The old person will be forced out of his home,… Read More ›
A PASSAGE OVER WATER – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP TUESDAY: PASSAGE In the I Ching, a passage is not just a passage. A passage over water means something different than a passage over a mountain or across a meadow. Each movement carries its own specific message for you…. Read More ›
QUEST OR HIKE? – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Friday: HIKE So this is all about setting out on a quest. I’ll accept that life is a quest, but going for a hike — even as a group — is just exercise. Unless it happens you have Sauron’s… Read More ›
SOLITUDE AND A STOMACH VIRUS – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Thursday – SOLITUDE / SOLITARY I was going to write something thoughtful about solitude, being solitary while writing and editing and processing photography. Something thoughtful about being artsy and creative. Except I have this stomach virus and it is making… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 