Archive for August, 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Wilderness Redux
I’m about to go to a twelve step meeting, like ones I have been attending for several decades, and at this particular meeting I will get my chip. This chip is a metal disk the size of a Kennedy half dollar, with the Serenity Prayer on one side, and the phrase To thine own self […]
Comments Off - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Bill Glenn
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Those death panels: Sarah Palin’s surprising gift
Sarah Palin said it first, “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy […]
Comments Off - Posted in Religion and Politics by Robert "Voluptuous" Thompson
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Praising Sagging Blinds
The Chicago North Shore home where I attended a reception recently was magnificent: beautifully manicured, filled with elegant furniture and lovely art, overflowing with gracious, effervescent people. I had a warm and wonderful time.
But I knew that my way of seeing things had changed when I came home–to my condo neighborhood, where the sidewalks sprout […]