A 98 year old woman was rescued from the rubble of the earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy after being buried almost four days. When asked what she did to keep occupied during that time, she said, “I worked. I knitted.” My mother’s family is from that part of Italy. I understood exactly what she meant. My Zeccardi relatives would have done the same thing. I know now where I come from and why, if there was ever a nuclear war, my cousins from that side of the family would emerge from the bomb shelters as soon as the
Does she really even give a damn?
Am I the only one who gets the feeling that Sarah Palin is only inches away from not even bothering to pretend that she wants to be Alaska’s governor? How else to explain her recent actions except for the headlines they give her with her conservative base. From WAR to resubmitting names that she knows the Dems already rejected, she’s just trying to build a resume that says, “I’m the most conservative person for the job. I appoint AG’s who think gays are degenerates and I don’t let the Dems scare me into capitulating to their demands that I follow
Happy Birthday, Phil
Happy Birthday to my brother who is now so damned old that even the wooly mammoths stand in awe of his age. Thank god I have not aged as fast as he has.
Oh, and Lenny Landis, who is also someone envied by the mammoths for remarkable preservation.
And neither of them has gone extinct yet. Thank god.
Happy Tax Day
Ah, April 15. Tax day. The day all good Americans get to show their appreciation to their government for all it does for them. Smile as you mail that return. In fact, use little smiley faces on all punctuations that call for a dot on your check.
This year, perhaps more than most, ordinary Americans have cause to give pause as they mail their return in and wonder which executive at which failed financial institution will be getting that money in their bonus to encourage them to keep up the good work. Yep, it’s enough to make paying taxes an
It must be spring
I’ve changed my flannel sheets for regular sheers. Spring has arrived in Alaska. Let the spring snow begin! It doesn’t scare us because we know it will melt quickly and reveal the debris of winter that makes for so much clean up fun.
He just doesn’t get it
Ted Stevens has filed to run for office in 2014. But not to worry, say his staffers, he’s not really planning to run. He had to file in order to be able to accept more money after the last election ended. I’m sorry, but isn’t that what got him into trouble in the first place. Not only thinking the law wasn’t meant for him but not caring who knew? I mean, if this law is in place, I’m guessing it’s to keep people with no intention of running for public office from collecting money fraudulently. But Ted, he does it
How many do you take?
I take ten pills every morning to get me from today till tomorrow without my blood sugar or blood pressure or cholesterol or god knows what else killing me. I am a proud member of the sixties drug generation. Our philosophy of better living through drugs remains unwavering. It’s just the drugs we use that’s changed.
Anonymity
Posting online, writing e-mails and expressing opinions anonymously are sometime necessary in societies where expressing a different opinion can have serious and even fatal consequences.
Sending me anonymous hate mail because you disagree with my position on any particular issue is simply being cowardly.
Try not to confuse the two.
She’s one hot dog!
So I meet friends for dinner and, as always until it gets to be summer and too hot to do, the dogs accompany me for the ride. When I get to the restaurant, I carefully lower the windows slightly even though it’s still only about 35 degrees outside so that the car doesn’t get two warm inside for the dogs. I come out about 90 minutes later and both seem very comfortable. In fact, Blondie doesn’t even bother to get up from her comfortable position lying on the quilt in the back of the car.
We head home and are
Sniffing
Seriously, how much sniffing does any one dog have to do on a 2 1/2 mile walk… especially if that walk covers the same territory today as it did yesterday. I mean, aren’t at least some of the smells bound to be familiar and not worth a TEN MINUTE BREAK to thoroughly sniff, snuffle, paw at and re-sniff?