Sun pours down like honey

This year's "Carnage Cake" carried the Forest Gump-like theme: "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know when al...

Don't think about the future. Just be here now. Don't think about the past. Just be here now. -Ram Dass

A bit stressed lately. Which has led to the thoughts of a new vocation when I become miraculously independently wealthy. After a Saturday a...

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess...

Happy to say some poems of mine are up on Anderbo site: anderbo.com I am in great company - if you are not already familiar with this great...

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. -William Dean Howells

The oldest son was the baby of the family for ten years until his brother came along. I made him a dinosaur cake when he was five or six and...

Or slightly losing my mind. February mixed with the end of a long haul of a rough...not so much the end but the light at the end of it, lit...

I bow to the One who has no color, I bow to the One who has no beginning. I bow to the One who is without fault, I bow to the One who is i...

The great news is that Neil Gaiman's book, The Graveyard Book, won the Newbery. I loved this book, my 22 year old daughter just loved t...

Jane, we hardly know you...at least not like this . My son emailed this to me and I nearly fell out of the chair...depending on your sensibi...

that plastic bag in the tree

The Selkirk Grace (attributed to Robert Burns) Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, ...

On the eve of Robert Burns' 250th birthday, the trek to Kearny, NJ where scores of Scots get their food fixes. I remember my Dad, my Aun...

I like this story from another inauguration a lot. Love the duet at the end. And this around the world photoblog site is sublime armchai...

I am loving seeing the word President in front of this man's name. President Barack Obama . Wow, that sounds Terrific!

I had it all planned when I realized that January 15th would be my one year blog anniversary. I would muse about how much I've come to ...

Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority o...

Here is one of my new favorites, courtesy of the always terrific VSL which brings great finds to my e-mail constantly. This great stumble-...