One day, long, long ago...

there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.


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For years, my theme song has been "Take It Easy" by the Eagles. It was a reminder to a warrior indigo child to not always fight, and enjoy ( Read more... )

I've noticed a sudden surge in the massive volume of Viagra emails I'm getting from Canadian pharmacies. This is not anecdotal evidence, but rather hard numbers ( Read more... )

In one of the all-time great planning moves by the Catholic Church (and there are lots of them), they put the feast of Saint Patrick right in the middle of (or this year, towards the end of) Lent. For those who didn't grow up Catholic, Lent is a time of preparing the believer -- through prayer, penitence, alms-giving and self-denial -- for the ( Read more... )

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And, just in case the new embed feature still doesn't like me... here's the video on YouTube.

I have always found Keith Olbermann to be much too smart for American media. However, here he not only makes excellent points, I like how he makes them. It's nine minutes, and well worth watching.

Since it won't post inside my blog, you can view it here.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.
--Rumi, Sufi Mystic, 1207-1273

Somehow I don't think Rumi wrote this during the week after ( Read more... )

That as we age, men grow hair where we don't want it and lose it where we do? Is this God's way of making us less desirable for breeding purposes, so that younger, fitter men can provide better offspring for the survival of the species ( Read more... )