Hey there.  Just putting up a note to let you know that I’m still alive, that I still consider this my online home, and that I’ll be posting here, at least sporadically, for as long as I possibly can.  For the few of you who read this (that’s right:  you, you, and um… you, back [...]

It’s been five  months since I started this whole get better thing began.  If you’ve been reading since May, you know that since starting to actively try and lose weight, to make myself a healthier me, I’ve had my ups and downs, weeks where I’ve dropped a few pounds, and even a couple where I’ve [...]

I spent the entire seven days of this last week thinking I was going to gain weight.  No, I wasn’t being negative, I was just watching the cycle of how my weight loss has been so far, and I thought I had it figured out.  Apparently I was wrong.  I figured I’d go in to [...]

I owe everyone who normally reads this blog a sincere and honest apology for letting such a horrible joke stay at the top of the page for two whole days.  If I bow and scrape enough, will you forgive me?  Not that I can bow down all that far quite yet, but it’s coming along.  [...]

I was up early this morning, brought suddenly awake by a wrong number dialed to my cell phone.  Being wide awake – and I was, at least then, though I’ll admit to being a little bleary now – I ran through a quick check of all my social networks.  Now, normally I don’t use Twitter [...]

On a worldwide journey, Pope Benedict visits the United States.  While taking a private tour in a limousine around Washington, D.C., he gets the urge to drive.  He asks to switch places with his driver who, being a devout Catholic, would never say “no” to the Holy See.  The Pope takes the wheel and stomps [...]

There are some days, days like today, when you find yourself without anything much to say.  Today is the second day in a row, and I think it’s mostly because if I said anything, I’d be complaining about the blisters on my feet.  Instead, I’ve kept my mouth shut, because I don’t want to make [...]

Imagine, if you will, a tunnel.  It is dark – so very dark! – and you can see nothing, save a pinprick of light in the distance.  The tiny light calls to you, like a beacon, and you know as you move toward it, the light will grow larger and brighter and eventually you’ll be [...]

I found out this morning that Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in the foyer of his church yesterday.
For those of you who don’t know who Dr. Tiller is, and why I care, I’d like to take you back to 1991, to the Midwest city of Wichita, Kansas. National right-wing and fundamental Christian [...]

Imagine you were walking down the street and I approached you and beat the living daylights out of you. As you’re laying there on the ground, bruised and bloody, barely able to lift your head from the asphalt, I look down and proclaim, “That was for Gandhi!”. Would you believe for one minute – for [...]