'Blue moon, you saw me standing alone without a dream in my heart without a love of my own.' There is something magical about the ...

This first one was on Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish; and it made me laugh. Then I started looking at other Guinness ads. Since ...

When Apocalypto came to movie theaters, I decided I'd not see it because of what I had read would be gratuitous and graphic violence. ...

For a woman who prides herself in knowing about all the western movies that have ever been made (even if she chose not to see some of them),...

(Originally these three blogs were one but as I worked on the ideas, it grew into my feelings on what is religion? what happens if religion ...

A prime example of a religious leader, who claims he interprets god's will and tells others how they should live, would be recently dece...

Last summer, the Thai Buddha in my living room led to some questions from my almost eight year-old granddaughter while she was visiting for ...

Having written about immigration before, I won't go into all my previous thoughts on it. Anyone interested can go back to those earlier ...

Alongside our creek live some big animals. They graze on the grass, sleep under the trees and drink from its water. For these animals, it...

While back along the creek, checking out the bee tree, I saw this mussel shell. Some humans eat th ese type of mussels, but we look for the...

Besides cows, sheep, cats and us, there are many wild things that make their home here on this western Oregon farm and along its creek. They...

It's been a challenge lately to be online, to post anything here, given a new policy at Hughes Net (satellite dish), begun the middle of...

Every once in awhile a book comes along that speaks to me at a core level where I relate to the characters, feel their dilemmas, and emoti...

[When you are about to discuss something which you yourself have never experienced, other than through reading or pictures, it is good to st...

Although I have said it before, blog comments are the frosting on the cake for blogs. This is true for me when it's my own blog and also...

I try not to write about the Bushies very much in here. I prefer to not deal with personalities but stick to issues that we can do something...

There is what we know, what others know, and then what is true. For the most part, we get pieces of the life we are leading. We base a lot o...

Blogging is rather like writing a book except there is no ending unless you give it one, and some of the blogs I have read regularly eventua...