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• Shameful!

  

  I am incandescent with rage at the shameful treatment accorded Zelensky during the made for tv tag team/grudge match orchestrated by the White House. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rabbit Rabbit

  

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  Posted on 01 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Window Garden

  

  Breakfast: six-grain toast with mango/jalapeno hummus and a white nectarine.And what is probably the last bloom of the amaryllis Claui's folks gave us which... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

  

  Ethan, my older son suggested this for me. It's a kind of dark comedy with a reliable narrator who constantly breaks the fourth wall to address his readers and... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Must Be Woke

  

  I've written before about Singing Wheels--the iconic textbook from my fourth-grade years. It's a kind of Eric Sloane for kids-- a reader-friendly look at life o... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Promise

  

  The first crocuses seem to me a promise--Spring is coming. Though there may be snowstorms and nasty weather yet, daffodils and tulips are on their way, along... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Today's Text

  

  As the president and Elon Musk continue to hollow out our government, including the DOD, Putin must be congratulating himself on installing this useful idiot... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie the Disciplinarian

  

  I found this list of rules (or as Josie spells it rools) taped to the bannisters at the top of the stairs. I was puzzled at first then remembered that Josie... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Icicles

  

  After snow all day Thursday and the temperature in the teens that night, we were happy to awake to sunshine and a melt in progress--and we still had power and... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• We Are Not Okay

  

  Today I am embarrassed to be an American. Our president appears to be in thrall to Russia's Putin. In the Bizarro World of the FOTUS, Ukraine started the war an... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And Snow

  

  Paltry by Canadian standards but enough to call off school. The mountain roads the school busses travel are too dangerous when icy to risk.My call/email today i... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wild Times at the Palma Ceia

  

  The Palma Ceia Theater in South Tampa led something of a double life. Showing artsy and foreign films on weeknights, on Saturday mornings she let her hair down... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Keeping On

  

  Write those emails; make those calls.There are so very many things to be addressed but I try to limit myself. A friend told me she had trouble with calling as... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Strange Day

  

  First my Facebook account was suspended. The reason given had to do with an Instagram account--that I don't believe is mine. I signed up for IG years ago but... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• 1975

  

  Our late neighbor Clifford Freeman, Ethan and his cousin Andrew, all on the good mule Nell. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Update

  

  There was a Valentine's Day dance at school just for kindergarten, first, and second grades. It was awesome! I wore my new dress and danced with my friends.... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy Valentine's Day!

  

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  Posted on 14 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And I'm Back

  

  A new charging cord and my laptop is back in business! Boy, what an improvement to use a full size keyboard Would that everything else I'm worried about could b... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• This Is Just to Say

  

  I'm having computer problems and using my phone to post. Which is a drag. If you don't hear from me for a few days, that's what's up. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Where Are We Going?

  

  onOur country is heading into the unknown as a mad president raves about sporks and plastic straws while choosing the worst and wackiest for his government. Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY