Imagine a bucket full of wood cockroaches being thrown into a burning fire. The little brown bodies writhe and crackle and begin to fall apart. This is the scene we are watching in Washington.
( Published Saturday, November 29th, 2025 @ 3:29 pm )]]> In colonial Williamsburg, on main street near the palace, are the public stocks called the pillory.
( Published Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 @ 1:30 pm )]]> The August 20, 2025, headline was, "Florida will phase out certificates of completion for students with disabilities."
( Published Saturday, August 30th, 2025 @ 8:10 pm )]]> While you're at it, kiss diplomacy goodbye. The Art of the Deal was a fabrication. There was no deal with Russia in Ukraine.
( Published Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 2:23 pm )]]> The Christmas candy was barely off the shelves when the Valentine's candy appeared. Red and pink hearts with caramel and nut-filled chocolate goodness caught our eye. We are reminded of how we love love. Young love, especially.
( Published Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 11:27 pm )]]> In 2023, it seemed that a war against women was happening. Roe v. Wade was repealed after 50 years of precedent. Governors and Legislatures across the country put the clamps on abortion.
( Published Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 @ 2:33 pm )]]> News from Florida and Texas these days is shocking. Both Governors appear to be in a race to the bottom. One of them is running miserably for President of the United States. God help us.
( Published Thursday, February 29th, 2024 @ 1:32 pm )]]> I am no football expert. I am only a fan. I learned the game as a cheerleader in the 1960s. I knew the "push 'em back" and the " hey, hey, let's go" as well as anybody.
( Published Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 9:58 am )]]> Tom and I got married on a cold December Wednesday in the Ayden Christian Church at three o'clock in the afternoon.
( Published Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 12:45 am )]]> Bells are ringing all over the country. Some are Christmas bells, but more of them are alarm bells. Even conservative Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm.
( Published Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 7:46 am )]]> One can only imagine what will happen in a second presidency of Donald Trump. One of the more frightening possibilities is the abuse of power in handing out pardons like gum drops to cronies, who pledge fealty to Caesar in return.
( Published Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 4:29 pm )]]> The Christmas story, as recorded in Luke, says there is no room in the inn for the holy family to find shelter, and a safe place for the baby to be born.
( Published Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 @ 1:39 am )]]> We picked up our Boykin Spaniel in Florence, South Carolina. The name already given her was "Karma." The irony of the name was that the day we picked her up was the same day of Donald Trump's first indictment.
( Published Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 11:11 am )]]> In my darkest imagination, I see Donald Trump on Inauguration Day 2025. He is smug as he places his hand on the Bible and pledges his oath to uphold the Constitution.
( Published Thursday, December 28th, 2023 @ 3:46 pm )]]> Thanksgiving changes from year to year, the dates change, and the attendees at the Thanksgiving feast are different. Chairs are empty that once weren't. How is gratitude mounted in the face of grief and loss?
( Published Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 8:27 am )]]> Mrs. Russell, social climbing wife of a Railroad robber baron, is scolding her son. Larry is having an affair with a rich Newport widow for whom he is redesigning a house.
( Published Saturday, December 16th, 2023 @ 2:29 pm )]]> The mezuzah attached to the front door frame of our house has a little rolled scroll inside that has been blessed by a Rabbi.
( Published Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 @ 2:47 pm )]]> New House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking to the press after the horrific shooting in Lewiston, Maine said, "our thoughts and prayers are with the people. I'm gonna leave it there." Then he walked away from the reporters, leaving much unanswered.
( Published Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 9:39 am )]]> Robert Ringer's book, Winning Through Intimidation was released in 1976.
( Published Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 12:11 am )]]> Former North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources, Betty Ray McCain, was also a humorist.
( Published Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 4:52 am )]]> We watch war now in real time on television, cruelty and brutality on full display.
( Published Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 8:37 pm )]]> Diane Feinstein was ninety years old at the time of her death, which was neither shocking nor unexpected. In this last chapter of her life, her increasing frailties were on display for all to see.
( Published Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 6:06 pm )]]> No, I am not saying that shame is a good thing when it is used to belittle and berate another person, trying to make that person feel as small as possible. That is called bullying.
( Published Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 11:49 am )]]> I am not sure we can get more stupid than Tommy Tuberville trashing poetry reading on a war ship as being too "woke." Really?
( Published Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 8:05 am )]]> From 1050 until about 1300 AD, the Latin Christian Church sent crusaders, fighters for the faith, into the Holy Land to reclaim Jerusalem and other holy sites for Christianity.
( Published Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 @ 9:46 pm )]]>