Gale Warnings

Currently dealing with some unbloggable challenges (can't anonymize them sufficiently midstream, unfortunately). Am hoping to be past th...

I do not like to "throw my weight around". For one thing, I'm at an age now where my literal weight is a health consideration ...

This is a concept I've applied for years, occupationally and elsewhere, but I've never really seen it articulated. After explaining ...

It's snowing, here in Mid-Atlantic Sprawl. Again. The drifts from last week's blizzards have the traffic at a crawl. And then? Schoo...

"Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow In the bleak midwinter Long ago." If I had known what the past ten days would be like...

CZBZ has added a link to John McManamy's blog on her blog page, and my first read there stopped me dead in my tracks. Mr. McManamy is a...

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In ...

After recently escaping a near 24/7 life-devouring job (that I was enticed into as a "promotion" - hah), I've been decompressi...

I have not been blogging much recently... because multiple simultaneous good things have been happening to me in 3D, and I'm surprised ...

I've been watching the recent degeneration of public discourse in the US, for which the healthcare debate is merely a convenient pretext...

A few days ago I was riding public transportation and saw a woman, about my age, wearing a very nostalgia-making necklace: It said Live Laug...

Approximately 12 years ago, having recently passed the age of 40, I was thinking about my "life experiences" and about the changes...

"Time it was, And what a time it was... A time of innocence, A time of confidences. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph... Preserv...

Goodbye old friend peace be with you may it follow wherever you want it to if it becomes a burden and you long for sin rest assured I'll...

[A covered wooden deck, deeply shadowed. An ornamental cherry tree screens it from passersby. It's dusk; in and about the tree, and abov...

Not so very long ago, I wrote a series of posts in realtime, as I did some serious work with anger. Lately you may have noticed a prolonged ...

along with America the Beautiful, of course... "This is My Song" This is my song, O God of all the nations, A song of peace for la...

I'm going to be away again for a bit; while I'm gone, I'd like to share something I wrote on one of my other blogs, Strange Merc...

This is a very, very low tech blog. There is a very, very good reason for that. No, it's not laziness - at least, not primarily. It'...

In my previous post I discussed the fact that we are neotenous, both physically and psychologically - that we have a long, long childhood, c...

Earlier this year, Cinder Ella posted about having been raised by cats. It's an experience I share with her; for all intents and purpose...

In a much earlier post on this blog, I examined the "Non-Abusive Presupposition" , which is the premise that people on both sides ...

Mother -- The Police Well, the telephone is ringing Is that my mother on the phone? Telephone is ringing Is that my mother on the phon...

The Washington Post's advice columnist, Carolyn Hax, runs a weekly chat. This week's took place today, and I discovered its transcri...

It's always good to discover new and informative sites. Most recent recommended: the blogs at counsellingresource.com. This link takes ...

In my previous post, I mentioned "anniversary reactions". I'd like to talk a bit more about this phenomenon, because I think i...

Last April 15, just over a year ago, Kathy Krajco published her final blog post - not knowing it would be her last. But by early May, to the...