UN International Peace Day is observed every September 21st per per a United Nations. In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, adopted Resolution 36/67 establishing the International Day of Peace. In 2002 the UN General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent annual date for the International Day of Peace. Photo […]
Stumbling Over Ant Hills
I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels as I do, but given my “I’d live in a cave if I could” personality, I don’t stumble across many people period, let alone people who are much like me. So maybe this is more common than I think, but I suspect most people are not […]
RIP Daisy
I had to say good-bye to the bestest puppy in the whole world today. Daisy Buchanan aka Daisy Doodle, 2004 -2013 Rest in peace my Daisy Doodle. I will miss you. My heart is breaking.
Nearly Wordless Weds, My Girls via GIMP
I felt like playing with graphics and making a digital photo frame for some images for our girls. First I found an image I wanted to use as a frame in The Strand Magazine from 1894: ORIGINAL ALTER IMAGE INTO FRAME I used a white brush in GIMP to white out the text. Then […]
Enemy of the Little Gal – Koch
Remember when the little woman stayed at home, was painstakingly coiffed, had perfectly mannered children, always had dinner on the table just as the hubby walked in… Neither do I. But the myth is there and the new plutarchs have a vested interest in convincing the American people that if we go back to that […]
The Horrific Cost of Stupid – Guns
Corporate Financed Terrorism Today I listen to yet another day of media coverage of yet another mass shooting. 13 dead. Around 300 people are shot every day in the U.S. by guns. For a crowd-sourced data site that lists the basic statistics for named gun deaths in the US starting with the Newtown massacre go […]