Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Summer Solstice 2020 When chaos is all that the cowards of life have left, expect it to reign — in buckets. Mostly because the craven and...
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Jun 18, 2020
Dona Dona: Liberty for Life
June 2020 It is always best to return to the source of any matter, even if the matter is painful, especially if it is painful. So much...
Jun 6, 2020
French Curves - Keeping the Files Straight
6 June 2020 Being half-Dutch, I was always taught during my childhood that cleanliness is next to godliness, and, I always said, Out of...
Jun 6, 2020
Bear With It
Commencement Day 2020 As a mom, and as a woman, I gave this advice to my son whenever he, and I, were faced with an insufferable...
Jun 1, 2020
The Boilerplate Excuse Form
1 June 2020 Happy Retail USA I do not often mention by name, and mention in-depth, retail companies on this website. My purchases are my...
May 25, 2020
One if By Land, Two if By Sea . . .
Memorial Day 2020 For protests, that is. Memorial Day this year can receive no higher honor, no greater tribute, no deeper dignity than...
May 15, 2020
Roaming Charges - Cellular 101
May 2020 About twenty years ago, pre-me-Phone, during the most primitive impulses of the Cellular Network, there was an AM-news-radio ad...
May 15, 2020
Bat Out of Hell
Mid-May 2020 The other day I was driving Dear Husband, and myself, to the local flooring shop to select carpeting and flooring for our...
May 2, 2020
Sherman’s March to the Sea
2 May 2020 I continue with translation of THE DAWN into L’AUBE, at a pace that Dear Husband calls Sherman’s march to the sea. In reality,...
Apr 19, 2020
The Art Square
19 April 2020 Today, after a rather long hiatus of about six years from large-scale sewing projects, I started sewing a quilt. It’s...
Apr 12, 2020
Laying Down The Law - Leviticus 26:1-9
April 2020 Just as murder can be hazardous to your health, crime can be hazardous to the law. I long ago opined to my children that if...
Apr 1, 2020
The Turn of the Screw
April 2020 “I already know you’re screwing me. Don’t expect me to help you with it.” That nearly ribald statement was one that I made...
Mar 29, 2020
COVID Vichy
Easter 2020 I knew that it would not take long before the Macron government went full-Vichy, but I did not ever envision the post-card —...
Mar 22, 2020
The Mother Crumbles
Spring 2020 Goodness Gracious! Mother and her cookies have crumbled! I knew from the moment I saw this warning on the packaging: NEW...
Mar 17, 2020
Friend or Enemy - FOMO’d Again
St. Patrick’s Day 2020 The Fear Of Missing Out — FOMO — is a fear that I have very rarely felt or given into. Perhaps it is because my...
Mar 8, 2020
Christina Rossetti: Passionate Poetess
March 2020 Born in 1839 into a family of superlative artistic talents, Christina Rossetti, the youngest of the brood, developed her...
Feb 5, 2020
Working Notes - A Cowgirl's Prayer
Frontier Themes: A Cowgirl’s Prayer Thank you Lord for helping me through the night, Thank you for helping me see the Light. Thank you...
Feb 3, 2020
Volume II - Book Five: Pour La Victoire
February 2020 Many are the pleasures of a novelist when she discovers, or re-discovers, elements of her writing that she had long...
Jan 10, 2020
The Cowardice of the Bully
January 2020 The bully is the sneak-thief of decency. Unable to come out into the open and fight like an honorable human being, he, or...
Dec 31, 2019
L-o-v-e Themes - Modern Dating Lingo
Year's End 2019 Decades ago, I watched the Perry Mason Revival Movie series. Perry Mason returned, but the theme song got a bit mangled...
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