The Lighter Side of Darkness

Rhiannon riding in Arberth. From The Mabinogion I woke up this morning and had a nosebleed. That's never a good sign. It usual...

A work in progress There has been a lot of talk among my friends about poverty and homelessness lately. It has all been really construc...

Photo: www.facebook.com/kristelsmartsbooks My daughter wants me to date. Okay, if I'm being perfectly honest, I've even been le...

Photo: weknowmemes.com Let me tell you a story. It's sort of what I do. I don't make any promises about it's entertainment ...

Norman Rockwell So, this isn't going to be my best Christmas ever. I miss my family, we just got hit with an ice storm, my daughter...

Photo: en.wikipedia.org Yes, I know the photo is of "grapefruit" and has nothing whatsoever to do with being "grateful...

A beautiful sunrise for you all:-) What a week, eh? As I write this, the police have already killed one of the suspects in the Boston Ma...

I'm no astrologer, but long-time interest in astrology has given me enough insight to know that the full moon symbolizes endings and c...

The word "tradition" has been thrown around quite a bit lately, and it's a word I both adore and despise. I think tradition ca...

I play this game with myself sometimes: I'll lay in bed for a few minutes every morning (or for as long as Murphy allows) and pretend I...

Once upon a time, in a land long ago, there was an honorable thing called "manners". Children were raised to say "please...

   I've often wondered what my dog and I would say to each other if he could actually speak. It occurred to me almost immediately that h...

   In my last post, I invited you to fantasize with me. I introduced 'Karma Girl' and her Shillelagh of Doom; a new superhero of ...

   Sometimes I wish I was a superhero. Not the real kind of course, with all the overwhelming sense of responsibility and angst, but the i...