You know you’re about to lose big when this paragraph appears in a story about you.
“If you’re scoring at home, Trump still trails Clinton by quite a bit in terms of newspaper endorsements. Clinton has over 80, while the Review-Journal is Trump’s fourth — fifth if you count the National Enquirer.”
Seriously, when you have to count the National Enquirer as one of your endorsements in order to get to five, you should probably just pack up and go home. Continue reading →
Every time Trump leaned into the mike and said “Wrong”, he looked like he was doing an impression of Alec Baldwin doing an imitation of him.
The absurdity of this presidential campaign continues to drag us down Alice’s looking glass. Continue reading →
I’m a NASTY WOMAN and proud of it.
Screw you, Donald Trump. Continue reading →
We had an eagle release from Bird TLC, the wild bird rehab center where I volunteer. The vet who started the program is Native American and he said that his tribe believes the souls of the departed are brought to heaven on the wings of an eagle. Given Abdul’s chewed up flight feathers, I figured he could use a lift. So I sent him to heaven on the eagle’s wings.
There’s an old phrase – hoisted on your own petard – which I can remember my mother quoting in my childhood every time I did something she warned me not to do and it went bad.
The quote comes from Shakespeare and, since mom was briefly an English teacher, she loved those quotes. For sure it was not something often said by any other members of our extended family. They usually used Italian phrases when yelling at us and then refused to translate what they’d just said. Didn’t matter though. We knew from the tone just how much trouble we Continue reading →
We are not important enough for any presidential campaign to be bothered spending money running ads on TV here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. The silence is appreciated more than you’ll ever know. Continue reading →
This is a site with a fascinating article about Swainson’s Thrush and genetics and migration. Not a long read but very interesting. And certainly nicer to read than the front page of any given newspaper on any given day until this hideous election cycle has ended.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/migratory-birds-programmed-genetic-google-maps-180960442/ Continue reading →
This woman has too much class, intelligence and common sense to be wasted in the joke that has become our election system. She needs to stay above the fray and continue speaking truth to power. She needs to continue to act as our moral compass in a world where pastors live in palaces and presidential nominees are admitted sexual abusers.
I want Michelle Obama speaking for me for as long as she can and I’m still around. This woman is too good to waste in politics. Continue reading →
Just check anything that has come out of Trump’s mouth this week. Continue reading →
I’m starting to understand my Uncle Joe’s words as he helped us close my mother’s casket… “Once there were seven of us and now there’s just me.”
I walk though my bird room and think that once there were seven there and now there are only four. And while I realize some may not think the grief is similar, to anyone who has ever had a much loved companion animal, you know the grief is as deep and gripping as any grief you will ever feel.
I’m rapidly reaching the point where I’d rather be with them than here. No, Continue reading →