Author: admin

Stop raising my hand and volunteering when all I really want to do is crawl in bed with a good book.

While Republicans try to turn Medicare into a voucher program, I think that the same should be done with the health care insurance offered to all elected representatives. If I have to go to a voucher program and try to buy coverage for very limited dollars, then they should too. No more gold plated health plan for senators and reps. Give them a $100 voucher and tell them to go shop for a good deal.

I am well aware that our current crop of public personalities did not discover the art of being scummy yucks. Had so much media been available in the past, I’m willing to bet that we might know more today than we ever would want to about people we currently view as our heroes.

But we unfortunately live in an age where every overblown egotistical impulse that visits humankind can instantly be photographed, documented, twitted and tweeted around the world in the same amount of time it takes for the thought to occur. We have lost that valuable space of time

I was in a mall and a young man in front of me bent over to look at something in a display. And I was treated to the sight of most of his naked ass. Not only did I not need to have that image forever burned into my brain, but I must once again ask… how the hell do they keep those pants on? Do they have a constant erection and their penis acts as a hook holding the pants up? And my parents thought I dressed weirdly in the sixties. They had no idea what was to come.

As I grow older I notice that many people are adjusting their expectations of my abilities to remember dates, names, chores, appointments, etc. Some might find this annoying. I find it refreshing. There are finally expectations for me that I can achieve.

I often think that if Jesus came back to earth and walked into some of these Christian churches on a Sunday they would throw him out for being a socialist bum who was preaching enabling the poor.

My brother has been questioning one of the items on my bucket list – sky diving. I guess the only explanation is that there aren’t too many things left on my bucket list that I can still do. Little Joe is dead so he’s probably not going to fall in love with me and marry me. I am never going to write the great American novel as I now realize I am much too lazy to put that much effort into doing it. And I am definitely not going to be Miss America, even in that title’s diminished status. So,

I think I was about 20 years old before it occurred to me that my parents must have been having sex while I was in the house if my sister was born when I was almost 10. The thought still causes me to shudder.

What a summer I’m having. Last night I went to our zoo’s fundraising event and met Jack Hanna. Next month I get to once again enjoy Mr. Whitekeys’ Whale Fat Follies. And then in August I go to Fairbanks to be in the audience for Wait! Wait! Don’t tell me!”

I guess it’s true that everyone and everything eventually comes to Alaska. Now if we could just get Palin to move in the other direction…..

I live in a very nice section of south Anchorage where the nearest thing I see to someone or something homeless is when a baby bird falls out of its nest too early. I am not so protected though that I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it would be to my nice little middle class life to have a homeless camp nearby.

I enjoy the fact that I can go outside and not worry about who or what I might run into. I like that I can walk my dogs without fear of encountering someone drunk or crazed. I have no