If you have a message you wish you could send out to your entire city not just your small community, the local newspaper is just the ticket if you word things right. Most always it is pleased to help if your shtick is not simply self-serving. Your words will reach all over the place with [...]

Panhandlers (panners) aren’t invisible. Stop debating as to whether ot not to give them money. Don’t. Instead, look them in the eye whenever you neet, smile (acknowledging they have a right on this planet just as you do) and say, “Good Morning,” in a friendly fashion. Don’t hurry on. Realise that you have a right [...]

These perils aren’t in any particular order though once I’ve got a list, I may go back and rearrange them by annoyance level. Right now it’s this doorsign being swiped. Passersby, used to gawking at shops see something in your yard or on your door worth swiping. Queen’s university is nearby and sometimes the students [...]

What a Christmas present for a retired bookseller! The gracious individuals who know me well sent this magnificent tapestry just before Christmas. I took it down to the pool and hung it up in the locker room to photograph the details. It was woven in the Blueridge Mountains of North Caroline by an Association of [...]

This is the hem of my red dress and the holly decorations I fastened to my green rubber shoes with two-sided tape for the last Christmas push. I wore them to lead the singing of my peace & justice carols down at city hall on Friday, the day before Christmas Eve. On Thursday, carolers came [...]

Twelve Steps Song (Google this tune on youtube – very singable) Tune: Dwelling In Beulah Land (Old Gospel) 1) I admit I can’t control The life I have been living But a Higher Power exists To take my life in hand. Admitting I am helpless here, I look for strength to go on. As the [...]

When you see injustice happening, often increasing, your impulse is to jump right in and give 100% of yourself tryng to change it, often in company with interesting others. Before you plunge in and let this cause gobble your whole self, consider that there will be other causes. Is this the one for you? Yes, [...]

Wiley’s great! His look-up word today, Anoesis means the sensation of pure emotion or feeliing WITHOUT cognitive content. In other words, you don’t have any thought processes going, just one long thrilling sensation. Not untypical for the average day-in-the-life. Like mine. This woman was simply thrilled by what she found in the garden. A perfect [...]

Here’s the happy result, not to keep you in suspense in this saga of lost poppies right and left. These are the last two. But what happened to the others? Well, they slipped away as poppies do, reminding everyone who steps on one gone like this, to remember. Sometimes the center went too, sometimes the [...]

Just think about it. Members of YOUR community set up their OWN BANK after they got sick and tired of what the banks were doing to them, years ago. And while still receiving alll the benefits of banking, you can be a member of this community bank with a voice. And benefit your local situation. [...]