It occurs to me that we go through a stage in our lives where it seems as though every friend we have comes with a baby attached at the hip. They can’t come visit without bringing a bag bigger than most Pilgrims packed to populate the new world. It seems as though you will never have a quiet moment with them again where they are not talking babies, running after babies, changing babies or apologizing for the never ending wail of a baby.
And then one day all goes quiet. The babies talk now. Some even become interesting human beings
It seems appropriate
It seems appropriate on Halloween to discuss the rather heated response I’ve gotten to my Twinkie comment. Apparently there are a WHOLE lot of people out there passionate about their Twinkies. Many sent me e-mails, I assume because they didn’t want their names publicly connected to the faux cake product. Some have asked if I ever tried them fried. Well, here’s my Halloween confession. My friend Kate and I went to the Saturday market here in Anchorage a few years ago and brought son number 1 with us because he eats anything. He bought a fried Twinkie and a fried
My choices in 08… and why
One of my parents’ cardinal rules was that the secrecy of the ballot box was sacred. It was what made America stand out. Politicians could not punish us for the way we voted because they had no right to know how we voted.
Since our current Occupier and his administration have made a mockery of that notion by politicizing everything they’ve touched, I’ve decided, after twenty years of writing a newspaper column, it’s time for me to break the silence of my vote.
I look around at the debris and detritus that was once our great nation and its constitution,
Has anyone but me noticed
The war goes on virtually unheard and un-noticed. Deaths are now reported in little blurbs down the side of the big headline news which always has something to do with big numbers on Wall Street or some street going up or down in a dizzying yo-yo effect that mostly causes me nausea. Seems to me that a war that is costing our children’s future and lives should be getting a lot more ink and headlines. Or have we truly become the MTV generation, unable to focus more than seconds on any given scene before our ADD kicks in and we
My apologies
I just found out that there are links to my blog from some pretty hateful and disturbing blogs that advocate white supremacy, among other things. I apparently have no control over those sites putting up a link to me. I can only assume that anyone who knows me knows that they could not be farther from representing what I think and feel. On the other hand, if that link brings people to this website where I like to think that a little love and compassion occasionally shines through, maybe it’s not a totally bad thing. Even closed, bigoted minds must
Ted Stevens
There is probably a made for TV movie in his story somewhere…a person who probably started out as a good and decent man who got turned around by power and arrogance. Between him and his wife, it’s hard to be sympathetic about his seven felony convictions. But it’s not hard to be sad about yet another corrupt public official biting the dust. Will this finally put to rest the statement from the movie Wall Street that greed is good? One can only hope.
My choices
The Anchorage Daily News has announced its choice for president and I’m getting requests for mine. Check my column this week. It will answer all your questions – not only who, but why.
Well, I’m relieved now
George Bush is having an economic conference. Whew. Now I feel better. The good days can’t be far away if Bush puts his mind to the problem…what’s that you say? Yes, he does. He does too have a brain…ok, he has a head and something in it and I don’t care what you think, it’s only common courtesy to assume it’s a brain. Now go out and spend money. George is going to save our savings, just as soon as they finish the show and tell presentation that will explain to him what the word economy means.
Why Twinkies
I’ve been asked why I used the Twinkie metaphor in my column this week. It’s because I think Twinkies personify what has happened to America. We no longer get homemade cake from mom’s comfy kitchen. We get Twinkies…pure plastic and chemicals formed to imitate what a real cake once looked like. Twinkies…the cake with a shelf life longer than the sun’s life expectancy. It’s the Britany Spears of fast desserts.
It’s so nice to know
It’s so nice to know that as people go hungry and lose their homes, the Republican Party still has enough money to buy Palin a $150,000 wardrobe makeover. Because I want my small town hockey mom VP candidate to look good while Rome burns. And it seems wrong to ask her to shop in WalMart where she’ll run into all us seniors who can no longer afford to live without being a WalMart greeter. That would just depress her perky smile…or, at least, I think it would.
The good news is that when Sarah comes home, she’ll be donating her