I am so proud right now, happy to be part of this great country and its people - people with hopes and dreams just like me, people with as diverse a dream as the diversity that we enjoy in this great nation.

( My little flag waving tribute to my favorite country (no, not Sicily)! )

Hamas Announces Ceasefire

Well, I knew it was coming. I have been in manic mode for a couple of days now, bouncing, laughing, engaging in prattle by myself or anyone else who will listen, singing at the top of my lungs, not being able to focus on work or the tasks at hand, wanting to spend a lot of money, wanting to go out and start a fight or fuck a stranger - all the ( Read more... )

I took the statements (sometimes questions) and quickly wrote down the images and words these things brought up. I did not really answer them, as they were not really questions, really. So I did a free association like the title of the meme. Some actually end up answered, some sound like I'm a demented Sybil - not the Sally Field character ( Read more... )

Got up early, fed the birds, and had to take this shot, as I've NEVER seen the thermometer this low. It's usually wind chill that makes it 25 below zero. Not this time...

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India Razes Slums, Leaves Poor HomelessThat pretty much sets it straight for me; II can't go to this country. 3 million people just tossed aside to live in absolute poverty. To sleep on rubble. Only human beings are capable of acting this way, and this is supposed to be a consciously aware society? We're supposed to be lifting humanity higher, not ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about Leonard Cohen, but his songs make me feel weird, like I'm traveling to a place I've never been, like New York cold-water flats. But then it rises above the mundane and travels somewhere I cannot place, like a taste I cannot distinguish.

My gynecologist told me my ovaries are perfect, my uterus is in fine condition, my blood test is good, and that even though I am 42, I can still have children ( Read more... )

Is Stevie Wonder going to be a part of the celebration during the inauguration of Obama, or what's the story?! I fully expect him to be front and center, playing and singing his heart out. MAN, this is one party I wish I was in charge of throwing.

A friend is looking for loving homes for found pups in Chicagoland area and thereabouts ( Read more... )