I resent that Bill Maher suggests that religious people support George Bush and scientific people don’t. I am religious, and my religion says that people who cause death for personal gain are evil. Since the war in Iraq was so clearly fought so that the American taxpayers could be fleeced by George Bush’s constituents, and […]
This morning we had to part with a beloved friend. Our eldest ferret, Indy, suffered a stroke or something like a stroke yesterday; when we got home last night Indy was not moving from his neck down. We bathed him and loved on him, and this morning he was still not moving from the neck […]
Monday evening we got back from a fabulous, if far too short, trip to Prague in the Czech Republic. Erci’s Aunt was there on business and invited her husband and us to come along for some tourism. I fell in love with a city. Last Wednesday evening we jumped on a plane at Dulles. At […]
Erci and I just got back from a wonderful trip to sunny Arizona to visit my Aunt Kay, Uncle John, Aunt Vicki, Uncle Darl, and cousins Kyle, Kurt and Sarah. Erci and I fell in love with Flagstaff. It is a beautiful small city with about a hundred years of history, gorgeous vistas of the […]
Well I have just contributed to MoveOn.org and volunteered. I have no idea how my skills or help can be used by MoveOn to bring about change, but I am willing to try almost anything. The federal government is no longer my government; it does not represent me, it fights wars I do no support, […]
On Saturday, October 25th, we took my brother, his girlfriend, and my mother out to Stillhouse Vineyards in Hume, Virginia, to taste a little wine and see the Autumn foliage. The foliage was disappointing, but the Cabernet Franc was awesome. I normally dislike Chardonnay, but Stillhouse and Naked Mountain both have Chardonnay wines that are […]
I just found out that my cousin Kyle has trapped a Red Tailed Hawk he is calling Red October and he hopes to hunt with her this Autumn. I am somewhat envious of Kyle, in a good way. I have been fascinated by falcons, owls, and hawks as far back as I can remember. That […]
Personal: Today is my mother’s birthday, and I was able to call her but unable to talk a lot because I have a very sore throat. I am extraordinarily fortunate to have a mother with whom I am very close. She is someone I can talk to, someone I love, someone I respect enormously. She […]
This is a first post to my new blog space, powered by the web application Blogger (www.blogger.com). I hope to share a few thoughts here, and perhaps someone will find it useful or entertaining, perhaps not. I decided to set up a blog a while ago, and Erci embarrased me into setting one up by […]
