“Now do you understand the difference?” Take two

One of my buds sent me the following bit that’s making the rounds:

John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama were walking down a Washington DC street when they ran across a homeless man.

Bird brains

It’s usually pretty quiet and peaceful in West Seattle, but readers of the West Seattle Blog were shocked by news of a murder yesterday.

My life on the silver screen

When I came to live near the town of Mt Shasta for a year in the mid-1970s, I had no idea that I would end up on the silver screen.

Inspiration and gardening

Spent a little time working in the garden between rain squalls, hailstorms, and snow flurries on recent weekends. We had a big load of compost delivered that we’ve gradually spread around and used to fill in holes in the rockery. Susan has planted onions, beets, and snow peas so far, and that hardy chard kept going all winter. But in my mind the main reason for a garden is tomatoes,

Muffin tops

One of my favorite young friends occasionally manages to turn kind and encouraging words into unintended insults.

He recently scanned an article about “muffin tops,” one of the many terrible effects of gravity acting on middle-aged human bodies. If you shop at Costco you know what I’m talking about.

Throw the bums out

…and put them on trial for war crimes. Had enough of being lied to and misled and manipulated and sucker-punched by President Bush and his buddies?  Looks like John McCain = more of the same.  NO THANKS.