Of Mice and Gwen

There’s a woman I love.  Who I have loved for many years.  I just saw some pictures of her, because we recently became friends on one of the social networks I belong to. I was immediately overcome with sorrow and longing.  But it’s a weird longing that defies modern rules of love and relationships . [...]

Just got this in an email and thought I would pass it on. Charles Schultz Philosophy The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you’ll get the point. Name the five wealthiest people [...]

I found this quote while Googling for where I had a told a story involving my youngest son. You say, tell you facts and feelings. Well, facts first, they’re easier. Clem’s A.A. Battery is quartered in a girls’ school, from which he writes superbly funny letters. The girls are absent, of course, but their school-stories [...]

Like many people who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive families, I don’t really like the holidays.  Even normal, sane families go through stress around the decorating and gift buying and the unsatisfied expectations.  For the broken family it becomes a hell. One of the things my mother did to relieve the tension was to send [...]