Just a quick note for that particular mom who I know is out there wondering how her kids are. Well, she’s either doing that or she’s sitting at her kitchen table, reveling in the quiet, while sipping her 15th latte of the day and petting her dog. Anyhow, they are fine. They are delightful. They are two charming young ladies that you should have no fear to present to the world. And, they are an absolute hoot for wanting to hang around with an old lady and have fun. Just a fair warning…I may have accidentally slipped and given out
Holidays
The holidays approach and family sturm und drang kicks up five notches as the all important question “Where will we spend (fill in the holiday)?” gains momentum . And this is yet again why Alaska is so peaceful for me.
Why I live in Alaska
I recently celebrated the 34th anniversary of the day I arrived in Alaska. The fact that I remember the date and celebrate it each year is probably indicative of how important it is in my life.
At a luncheon I attended soon after this anniversary, I was approached by someone who said that it was clear from what I wrote and said that I’d found my place in this state and had put down some pretty deep roots. She asked what it was that had kept me here way past my initial two year commitment with Indian Health Service.
It’s
At lesat making women wear a veil is honest
I was watching a show on anorexia and bullemia and how being a size o is now the goal for girls and women. And it occurred to me that at least Muslims are honest and open about their feeling for women by making them wear a burqa or whatever that head to toe walking tent is called.They want them to be invisible and dresss them as such. Here in the West, we claim that is horrible and that we treat our women with respect. I don’t see the respect when we are telling them they have to be a size
I’m getting nervous now
I have two wonderful young ladies coming to visit me tomorrow and as I look around my house, I once again realize that not everyone thinks normal includes six birds and a blind and deaf dog who has to be carried everywhere just because life is too short to wait for him to get there himself. I wonder if I can ever get all the little birdseed, crumbs and corn kernels up before they arrive? I wonder if they will laugh or be horrified by some of the language my birds know? None of which, of course, they learned here…that’s
Why would anyone mix these up?
Why would anyone ever mix up a political party with a moral party? I mean, how stupid do you have to be to think a party that lives to win elections based on ofttimes dubious information, slurs and outright lies, could have any moral compass? No political party can claim that. If you want morals, look elsewhere. And for god’s sakes, get a life.
Ark project
As soon as I find out what a cubit is, I plan to start an ark in my yard. If you want to ge tin on the ground floor so you can be saved when the deluge finally overwhelms our ability to drain the water, sign up early. Seats in the good section are going fast. For those wondering, the bad section involves sharing sleeping space with the lower orders of mammals like politicians and televangelists.
Ark project
As soon as I find out what a cubit is, I plan to start an ark in my yard. If you want to get in on the ground floor so you can be saved when the deluge finally overwhelms our ability to drain the water, sign up early. Seats in the good section are going fast. For those wondering, the bad section involves sharing sleeping space with the lower orders of mammals like politicians and televangelists.
Protection, Inc.
The US Congress is nothing more than Protection, Inc. and it protects only its own. It makes unions and the mafia look open and inviting by comparison. And while I’m at it, I find it very interesting that the Republicans are trying to spin this as a Democrat problem and are bringing up poor horny Bill again. Have they no shame?
When is it no longer the original?
So if you make something for dinner and it’s too much and then you end up eating it for the next ten days in a row but on the 11th day it’s not quite enough so you add a little of something else to stretch it but then you have way too much again and the cycle repeats, at what point do you no longer have any of the original involved?