Category: Spiritual

  • Happy Valentine’s Day

    A friend of mine forwarded this link to me, and the site to which it transports you shows approximately 500 years’ worth of women’s portraits, using truly excellent morphing software to transition between the various faces over a period of three minutes.  To those of you who have speakers hooked up to the computer you…

  • ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… Mom Style

    ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thru the abodeOnly one creature was stirring, & she was cleaning the commode.The children were finally sleeping, all snug in their beds,while visions of Hot Wheels & Barbie, flipped through their heads.The dad was snoring in front of the TV,with a half-constructed bicycle propped on his knee.So only…

  • Ain’t that the truth

    Every day takes figurin’ out all over again how to fuckin’ live.Calamity Jane, Deadwood, Season 3, Episode 1

  • One of the nicest emails

    If you woke up this morningwith more health than illness,you are more blessed than themillion who won’t survive the week.If you have never experiencedthe danger of battle,the loneliness of imprisonment,the agony of torture orthe pangs of starvation,you are ahead of 20 million peoplearound the world.If you attend a church meetingwithout fear of harassment,arrest, torture, or…

  • Mean Moms:

    Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them:I loved you enough… to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.  I loved you enough… to insist that you save your money and buy a bike for yourself even…

  • Pledge of Allegiance

    Hooray for Dennis Miller!  He said recently on his show, regarding the judges who declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional:So, Your Honor, the Pledge is unconstitutional because it says “Under God.”  Guess that means when you were sworn in with your hand on a Bible, and at the end of your oath repeated, “So Help…

  • Girlfriends & long time friends are so important

    Young and newly married, I relaxed under a pecan tree on a hot Texas summer day, drinking iced tea and getting to know my new sister-in-law, Estelle.  Not much older than I, but already the mother of three, Estelle seemed to me experienced and wise.“Get yourself some girlfriends,” she advised, clinking the ice cubes in…