Elise Sereni Patkotak

It’s hard for me to support a party that claims that morality is only found in small towns and mocks the community service of the other candidate. 

The real difference between HIllary and Sarah is that Hillary bothered to tell Chelsea about birth control. Can you just imagine how nuts the right wing, Christian conservative media and various religious leaders would be if it was Chelsea who came up 17, unmarried and pregnant?  It would all be attributed to her liberal parents and their no values lifestyle. But when one of their own gets caught, not a peep.

Here’s what I don’t understand. Why do people think that if Barack Obama were a Muslim, he’d have to keep it a secret?  Is there a clause in the Constitution that I missed that said that if you’re a Muslim you can’t be president?  Do people think Muslims can’t love America and be loyal citizens?  Can this level of ignorance really be so rampant in 21st Century America? I’d be a lot more worried about a political party that kept in its fold a politician who claims he just has a wide stance in men’s rooms than I would be

Do you sometimes get the feeling that the media has forgotten that it’s John McCain who’s running for president?

Anyone who ever wonders why I spent almost thirty years in Barrow simply doesn’t understand the pull of the tundra and Arctic seas on my soul. I think I must have been some sort of Arctic critter in my previous life.

Blondie has a disease that causes her to be less than interested in food. So getting her to eat is a big deal in my home. Both times that I’ve had company this summer, she has stopped eating to the point where I was ready to get her a vet appointment to see if the disease had dramatically worsened and we needed to up her meds. Both times she started eating again the minute the company left. Hmmm…..let’s see if we might not have a dog using food for emotional gain. When I have company distracting me from focusing on

I am still embarked on a seemingly futile quest to get the rescued Conure that I am fostering to eat healthy food. In bird world, that means something other than seeds. So, being a human and therefore inherently brighter than the average bird…one hopes…I devised a method of mixing his seeds with some high potency fine Harrison’s bird food. This food is tiny little round pellets, maybe the size of a very small BB or the tip of a pencil. I sneakily mix the healthy food with the seeds. Since many of the seeds he eats are also round and