Scribblings

But that’s because they’ll be afraid of what Big Bad Vlad will do to them if they pick on his little boy Donny. Continue reading →

Republicans have been screaming for over four years about repealing the Affordable Care Act. Yet they now need another year to come up with a plan to do that while trying to salvage the good things in it… like coverage even for pre-existing conditions. What the hell have they been doing for the past four years? Did they seriously spend all that time bitching about something without trying to figure out a plan to fix it? Or are their brains so small they couldn’t handle two things at once… abolishing one plan while replacing it with another.

Assholes. Idiots. No, Continue reading →

…when this is your backyard. Continue reading →

Heading off to my first day of 2017 at Bird TLC. If anyone out there is worried about retiring and wondering if life holds meaning beyond retirement, I heartily suggest you find your passion and pursue it. That’s what I did. And my retirement has been filled with eagle poop and owl pellets and friendly nips from my Cache Crow Kodi and I could not be happier or feel more fulfilled.

There is life beyond a paying job and it’s more wonderful than you can imagine. No paycheck can equal the thrill of watching an eagle you’ve helped rehab be Continue reading →

Another day of ice fog, trees shrouded in white and looking spectral. And another day of three dogs who feel they should not have to get up until the temps top at least 40. Continue reading →

Woke up to find three piles of poop from one of the dogs who was too polite to wake me up to go out. Yep, this year is starting out just about the way I expected it to be. Spent last night listening to Snowy bark and pant as the idiots around my neighborhood set off fireworks that shook my windows. Carm and Nayla slept through the whole thing.

Is it 2020 yet? Continue reading →

I used to write a humorous column for the paper before each New Year about people and things relegated to my permanent Hall of Infamy. But this year has simply overwhelmed me with so many choices for that honor that I’ve decided to can the whole concept for now.

I can’t wait for 2016 to end, except of course for the fact that 2017 brings the end of my country and our democracy as we’ve known it as Orangeman and his cadre of billionaires and military/industrial generals complete the destruction of all we once held dear.

I still find it Continue reading →

There is a joke in our family about the fact that Sereni’s have no butts. None. Nada. Zilch. The only time one of us ever could lay claim to anything resembling a butt is when my sister was thrown from a horse and her left butt cheek was so swollen it looked like she had at least half of one.

But lo and behold, there is no reason for despair. She butt dialed me last night. So despite the lack of protuberance, even those of us who are butt-less can still make a butt dialed call. Learning this has made Continue reading →

Don’t miss my column in the paper today or on this site tomorrow. It’s about the controversy associated with trying to mainstream special needs children into regular classrooms here in Anchorage.

Also forgot to announce when I moved to this new site that I am now able to take comments from readers. Couldn’t do it before because I had no way of controlling the spam. And really, how many viagra ads does one blog need? But now I can go in and dump the spam and just allow real comments to appear. So yea for progress. Let me know what Continue reading →

And then this most horrible of years will be over. I can’t wait!

Of course, next year brings Orangeman’s inauguration… sigh, what a crappy, crappy way to start the new year. Continue reading →