An Old Year

It’s @ 4PM on New Year’s Eve afternoon.  We’ve been digging out after @ a foot of lovely soft snow here in NH.  The old year goes out awash in new snow, with more expected for tomorrow.  I’ve no particularly heavy thoughts this New Year’s Eve.  Maybe that’ll come later, by the chiminea, as the […]

As December’s Days Draw Down …

… I wanted to share this interesting site (and undertaking) that my sister sent to me recently.  (Thanks!) 
It’s about a man from Vermont who is walking to DC to highlight his (and others’) efforts to get impeachment onto the Congressional table in a real way.   He says:  “I’m walking from Faneuil Hall to House Speaker […]

Vacation Days

Saddened and angered and frightened by the assassinaton of Benazir Bhutto and the precarious state of the world, I was struck this morning by how such events don’t alter Dubya’s vacation schedule.  That got me to looking for specifics about the absolutely obscene number of vacation days Bush has taken since he became president. 
Here’s some data from the Common Dreams […]

The Singing Swede

The new USWNT coach, Pia Sundhage, held her first, mini training camp in early December out in Carson, California.  She began the first session with a song!  It’s going to be very exciting to see how this team evolves under her tutelage … and I can’t wait ’til she pulls out her guitar!
On another note […]

Christmas Night … Ugh!

After a lovely Christmas shared with family and friends I somehow wended my way to Ann Coulter’s website before bed.  (As I recall, that journey had started with Elizabeth Edwards and one thing led to another … most unfortunately!) 
After reading but a few of her vituperative words, I could feel the Christmas spirit evaporating FAST.  […]

Christmas Morning

Awake in a mostly-sleeping house, I find time to be still and contemplate before the day gets underway.  Christmas is such a marker of the passage of time and of the status of our hopes and dreams - or so it feels to me at the moment.  No matter how I feel about what our culture […]

Christmas Eve Morning

It rained hard last night and stayed warm, so we woke to an iceless world (thankfully).  Snow still blankets most everything, but where it had been plowed and shoveled, the bare ground shows through.  What’s left must be very wet and heavy - and whenever it freezes it’ll be amazing!
Yesterday we had several visits from […]

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