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A Little Waste of Time

[caption id="attachment_155" align="alignright" width="235" caption="Our Reunion Organizer"][/caption] I recently did something I've never done before.  I went to a class reunion.  Not my class, however.  My husband's law school class.  He graduated twenty-five years ago.  The reunion was held at the law school he attended.  The...

Good Thinking

Well, you did it, you nitwit voters.  Called them all back to spew more of their nonsense about taxes and the evils of government spending.  You, the great middle-class, whose numbers are far larger than any other strata of our country, you're the ones to...

Holding Our Breath

We're all holding our breath, waiting for the results of the mid-term elections.  Once again, the media have favored the Republicans before those results are even in.  Polls have become the modern-day crystal ball; pundits are like the ancients reading the goat entrails.  Can we...

One World to Another – Thoughts on Artistic Media

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, by Pablo Picasso I have always loved Cubism.  Picasso and Braque, the master, the founders, if you will.  I always loved the idea of breaking things down to essential elements, and recombining them into new images.  Last night I watched a...

Observations about the Upcoming Mid-Term Elections

Like many of us, I'm thinking a great deal about the upcoming mid-term elections.  I don't know about you, but I've grown weary of campaign commercials, campaign rhetoric, name-calling, finger-point and the rest.  The Tea Partiers bore me with their proud ignorance of how anything...

Michael Cunningham, “By Nightfall”

"By Nightfall", Michael Cunningham I read Michael Cunningham's novel, By Nightfall, not long ago.  I didn't find it as strong as The Hours, but then I don't know how he could possible do better than he did there.  That said, By Nightfall has some amazing elements...