The bad news is that with aging comes a definite loss in the ability to remember things. The good news is that you equally forget happy and unhappy moments.
Once again I wonder
Is it just me or do you see a pattern too? When Bush started his misbegotten war of choice, people against the war held peaceful protests, standing on street corners holding signs and marching… with approved permits, of course. Here in Alaska, that was met by people who supported the war pouring water over the protesters in the middle of winter, a violent act.
So the liberals are peaceful, the conservatives are violent.
Then we have the anti abortion movement. They claim to be pro life and prove it by shooting people and blowing up clinics with people in them.
Health care
Whew! One week into health care reform and the United States still stands. We must be stronger than we thought we were. But why, oh why, has Rush not left yet?
Sarah’s new do
Anita Bryant circa orange juice commercials or senior prom circa 1972? And yet appropriate as her politics seem to want to take us back to the halcyon days of the 1950s when all Americans were happy white folk living in clean little communities with nothing more to worry about than the atom bomb.
The declining moral authority of the Catholic Church
I was raised an Italian Catholic in the 1950s and 60s. I spent sixteen years in Catholic school being taught by nuns and the occasional priest or layperson. And while I know that it is considered cool to snicker at that now, I have to say that those were some of the best years of my life.
Sure, I got some strange ideas along the way. For instance, it turns out the pope isn’t the king of the world and the president isn’t the guy who helps him run America. It’s not that I was ever actually taught that as
Last week
Last week I had to put on a bra and makeup three times in one week for social events that required both. I may need at least a month to recover.
Thank god
I had two social events to go to this past weekend. One on Saturday night and one on Sunday afternoon. Thank god. That way I already had my make up on from Saturday and didn’t have to fuss on Sunday.
The Iditarod dogs
I look at the dogs and I look at Lance Mackey and then I look at them together and think that PETA should be using them as poster children for how dogs and humans best interact. Both species vibrant, healthy, athletic, involved in a project they do well together…. that the way all pets should get to live their lives, with purpose and love and respect. And even as I write this, Blue and Blondie look at me and explain that their purpose in life is to get me to walk every day for my health and then clean up
Cosmetics
One of those e-mails came to my in-box recently that purported to show famous women with and without makeup. The idea, apparently, was to show that they were just like you and me except with better staff to apply the paint. Quite honestly, most of them looked better in their before makeup picture than I do in after makeup pictures.
However, I am not deterred by something like that. So when I had to go to a reception recently, I gamely applied makeup thinking that this time, maybe when I was done I could at least look like a better
