Perhaps it will be my next home page

I rarely visited this site even before 2001. But now?
I’m so chuffed by this, so relieved that perhaps after all we are going to grab our Constitution before it falls irretrievably over the edge into oblivion, and feeling so unexpectedly engaged with policy issues – that www.whitehouse.gov could be my new home page.
Oh. No. Did [...]

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Aretha

January 20:
Sitting on the sofa
Puppy on my lap
Just me at home with him
watching the sleek new HDTV
with count the wrinkles resolution
Sun pouring onto us this morning
and the Rockies in the distance
From somewhere
was it dusty country Oklahoma
nearly 60 years ago
From somewhere
was it sultry 60’s Houston
middle school in a buckle of the Bible belt district
From somewhere
surely the [...]

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So-called real life

Maybe I’ve run out of things to write about? Or at least things to blog about?
Nah. I refuse to entertain the idea.
But it has been awhile since I posted anything. Since I just had to share what’s on my tiny mind with all of you out there on the innernets.
And I’m not entirely sure why.
Mostly [...]

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The old me is fine, thanks.

OK, people, I read or hear one more iteration of “New Year, New You” and I throw a hissy fit. The world has been warned.
They can keep whatever “new” version of me it is that they want to sell me. In a package of makeup, or a new outfit, or “body-firming” undies, or some other [...]

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