I thought I would update readers on how my household is doing without our Daisy Dog. We have her ashes so it is seeming more real. Buddy (below) still wants to know where Daisy is and why she isn’t coming home. The only real regret I now have is that we couldn’t have had Daisy […]
Women Not Cut From the Same Cloth, But…
I’ve been mulling over this post for weeks. There are things that have to be said that border so many issues it is almost impossible to write about them without getting lost in tangents. I love tangents but they are slippery and can sidetrack as well as illuminate through example. I know I am not […]
Breach of Trust
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Reviewed by Rachel Maddow in the New York Times. What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, […]
Dragon Flies and Fairies for Wordless Wednesday
Scientific Illustration Wordless Wednesday was going to just be this page from an out of copyright journal article, Packard, A. S. The Dragon-Fly (August 1, 1867) The American Naturalist, Volume 1., which I thought was really cool. since I decided to switch to the Balance child theme for the Genesis framework for WordPress and thus […]
#TucsonTuesday and a Tucson Tuesday Blog Hop
Tucson Tuesday is a social media tag, theme, meme, call it what you like intended to promote the wonderful community that is Tucson. It is even a hashtag #tucsontues. To participate all you have to do is participate! How simple is that? Tweet, blog, pin… your choice!
Autumnal Equinox – Calm Before the Storm
I have always loved the ways the words “autumnal equinox” roll off my tongue. Three syllables each, vowel heavy, q and x, and n sounds, quirky smooth complexity. The season was sort of a damp gray melancholy after a few days of vibrant color where I grew up in the mid-west, but where I now […]