Sometimes a topic comes along that I'd really rather not write about but eventually feel I can't ignore. Such is the case with this ...

Please read Time Goes By again today, November 28, 2007. It is more on the House bill that has now come to the Senate and is assumed to mak...

Right now, in my country, I feel like one of the characters in Happy Feet , the animated film using penguins to tell a story about old ways ...

Life is about cycles and spirals. We repeat patterns again and again and much of the time oblivious to what is happening. Television schedul...

My friend, Parapluie, has been painting dragons off and on for quite awhile but more frequently in recent months. You can see some of them o...

Part of ranch life is death-- a word many of us don't like to use or even read. It's part of all life but a working ranch sees it mo...

Copying Beethoven is a film I hadn't heard of, although I maybe should have. In skimming along the boxes in the video store, I came ac...

Where I live, with winter comes long nights, days where it's often too cold outside for more than what is necessary. Winter is the time ...

The beliefs of what comes after death run the gamut from nothing, to being reborn, to a heavenly throne or fiery hell, to lavish rewards of ...

When I began this blog, I expected to write more about aging than I have-- 8 posts on it as compared to 82 on politics. I think that's ...

many were boys when they went off to war some to never return now it seems strange to come here to this place of memorial and realize it wil...

In a comment on the last piece regarding corporate agriculture, Robin Andrea from Dharma Bums mentioned an article online from Rolling Ston...

and don't forget this--

People who think the government should regulate nothing will probably see corporate agriculture as no concern of theirs at all. Corporations...

It would be nice to be writing a post here about what a terrific candidate for president ___ ____ is. Wow, I really like them and think th...

Please read Ronni Bennett's blog for today as she writes about a subject we all need to consider carefully regarding freedom of speech.....

Whether my introspective phase recently has been because of the coming winter season-- the illusion of dying with rebirth to follow in the s...

From the time I was a young adult, until now as an old woman, always the Metolius River has been a constant in my life. Not a place I physic...

Because it's Halloween, I realized the subject I had intended for the 31st would not do. If there i s ever an appropriate time to discu...