I don't know what has made me finally update this thing. Well, okay... yes I do. Full disclosure. I looked up some critic I used to...

Wishing all my friends up north, my very best! Do what they tellya to do, okay? (I know, its hard to take advice from the likes of Chris...

At left: a very colorful Page of Cups . Lots of great reading out there, and I can barely keep up. Here's a sampler of goodies y...

Today I helped still another cool person move away from the upstate. :( I have written before of how we lose all the cool people to p...

Small-blog traffic is down across the board, even as the 'big blogs' get more readers. It is increasingly obvious that blog traffic...

The Queen of Cups , from the Art Nouveau Tarot by Matt Myers. Advice: When people ask you to stay in touch, stay in touch. Don't...

It is my official AA anniversary, folks! Today marks my 30th year without alcohol. (gasp) I can hardly believe it myself. At left: an i...

Some people simply radiate goodness... you can even get drunk and barf on their nice rug and they say ohhh, that is nothing. When you reco...

Meditations today concern the rise of our social networking. I was asked a question in response to my post about the late Ben Masel (in one...

I have tried several times over the past couple of days, to write a decent obit for my friend, Plain(s) Feminist . Her blog is listed below...

I don't remember our first conversation, but it was probably about Catholicism. Later, we moved on to every other subject in the univer...

There I was, wringing my hands, wondering how I was going to pass out Green Party leaflets for the election. Fact is, I had no leaflets t...

Confession: I have not had tons of fun blogging this year. I've had repeated troll invasions and I've been banned from other blogs...