Goddess Grate

I still pray before eating when I sit at a table. When I eat in front of the tv I sometimes dive right into my food.
My life has changed so much in the last 39 years. I’m nowhere near what I thought I would be when I was younger but [...]

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The Lost Symbol: A Review

A few days ago I decided to write my reactions to Dan Brown’s latest novel while I read the book. Those more detailed notes deal with my reactions to certain philosophies and plot points as I encountered them. It was my version of yelling back at the tv.
This much shorter review is my take on [...]

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Shortcomings

I’m still doing my blogging via iPhone. It’s like sewing by hand. The stitches aren’t as precise and a previously simple task takes forever.
I can’t ‘more’ tag the last article and don’t like how much space it takes up. You’d think the WordPress For Iphone app would support HTML commands. There’s likely some reason [...]

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Live Blogging The Last Symbol

My computer and I have both spent the last two weeks running more erratically, taking longer to get things done and enexplicably shutting down.
The computer went to MacAuthority. I went to Amazon and bought a book to pass the time until my next tune up at Vanderbilt Rheumatology of Cool Springs. [...]

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Warning: I’m Pissed

This is my insurance biography. I think the time has come to tell this tale. I warn you it’s long, but I think it’s important now that we’re at this stage of the Insurance story. The short version is that the Senate proposal now under discussion is planning on taxing [...]

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Doorbells? Really?

I’ve written a cranky post about my health, and while it’s true that I do this blogging gig ‘for me, not for you’ as bloggers tend to retort when commenters get snifty, I do like to not make this a place that depresses people day after day.
So I decided to write a post [...]

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It’s Me Or The Grass

I am awake.
This is a problem.
I am awake at 11:00am on a Wednesday.
This almost never happens, because I take my shot on Tuesday night, which means I sleep from 2 hours after I get the shot until Wednesday night at 5 when I try (and sometimes fail) to wake up for a couple [...]

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A Thousand Words Are Worth A Picture

Over the past few weeks I’ve hoovered up a lot of books. Many of them have been just awful, a few have been forgettable and a couple were wonderful. But they were all written in the last five years or so, and I was beginning to feel as though I needed a change.
So [...]

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The Barometer In The Bone

In case you were wondering, there’s rain coming. I know that because I’m made of pain today.
I’m getting quite worried about where we’re headed in America, what with all the fusses being made over things like health care and the fusses not being made over things like nutrition for the poor. [...]

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The Trilling Wire In The Blood

The trilling wire in the blood
sings below inveterate scars
appeasing long-forgotten wars
—TS Eliot: Burnt Norton, Stanza II Four Quartets
My father now jokes that he is the Bionic Parent. I jest back that it is a shame he didn’t have such powers when we were younger and he could have heard us getting into trouble [...]

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