I thought ’12 would be good, but it wasn’t. So as for predictions, I’m done making them. Luck is what you make of it. And we are entering a new Bak’tun as the Mayans called the ages in their long count calendar, so we can reinvent everything to our liking. Isn’t this what we do […]
2012 Non-Apocalyptic Wrap Up
The last day of the year. How is this possible? I remember thinking way back when I was in my twenties how remarkably far away the Millennium was and how horrifically old I would be when it happened. Good Lord I would be in my 40s! Now heading into the 14th year past the whoop-de-do […]
Yuletide Greetings
Hello dear friends and readers, Merry Christmas and Happy Yule! May whatever holiday of the season you most cherish be a blessed one spent with family and friends making memories to treasure. I will be taking a bit of time off from blogging over the next couple weeks to organize myself for the coming year, […]
Oh Geesh, Mommy Wars Erupt Around Tragedy
The children, the babies, are not yet buried and the “Mommy Wars” have started over blog post responses to viral posts. I have many other pressing tasks to do, including traffic court today for forgetting to register my car, and I don’t want to spend the day researching. I probably should because I am a […]
We Are All Guilty When Any Child Is Shot Dead
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is ugly, heinous, heart wrenching, wrong and totally unforgivable. Babies shot dead in their classrooms. There are no words to describe the wash of emotion surging through me at this moment. We as adults, parents, citizens tolerate this violence or we would end it, contain it, and prevent it. […]
Question All End of Days Doctrines
We see what we choose to see. Hundreds of thousands of people believe the world will end on December 21st because of hype that has been promoted, largely on cable television programming that focuses on Nostradamus, Mayan calendars, ancient astronauts, and Hopi prophecies. But hundreds of thousands more, if not milions more are predisposed to […]