We Are the Shepherds, and Children Are Children.
On Christmas Eve, as I watched Anderson Cooper’s interview with parents of one of the massacred children, I found myself …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Fly in the Ointment,Coal in the Stocking…
Update: Christ’s Mass morning– sunlight and reality check. Room for gratitude. Thanks for reading me! …. No sooner do I …
Unroasting the Chestnuts…
It is Christmas Eve. In my refrigerator, a cheesecake, a pumpkin-sweet potato pie, marinating chicken breasts, a ham for tomorrow. …
Boehner’s Horse Drops Dead in the House
There isn’t an NY minute to pick a holly berry out of the rug– turn your back and the GOP …
Does the Shoe Fit? Tell the World.
If writer Liza Long, in the immediate wake of Newtown, exaggerated her account of her son’s alleged mental illness in …
Now or Never– Redefining “Enough.””
It was a weary-seeming president who stood at the podium in Newtown CT last night. The weight of the world …
Why I Don’t Have a Gun
Breaking. Twenty-six dead in Connecticut, twenty of them young children. Breaking. More to come. It won’t stop. It won’t stop, …
Mea Culpa: Let Love Be Incarnate in December….
When I was a teenager, ever buoyed by high school, that I was a blossoming writer and editor of the …
F- Yourself, Xmas….
God, I honestly think that I feel like choking the living shit out of a whole bunch of people. John …
Update: Advent Moon
What a wretched schedule, to ever be up at night cooking, writing, painting, watching mindless midnight TV– the season is …
Loquaciously Yours 