Soul Sparks

    This month. Hmm.   I was going to start this post with dark thoughts. Thoughts about all but giving up on my country. Thoughts about being ashamed of people who’ve chosen to forfeit their moral compasses. Thoughts about…

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Breaking

To Whom It May Concern:   I am an ordinary person. My ego is average (or at least I like to think so). My intelligence is average as well. I am terribly creative, and I own that. Even though I…

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My Tribe

    So.   I haven’t so much as looked at this blog since the morning after the U.S. election. Which sucked, by the way, as my country decided to pursue hate, fear and ignorance. Officially. (Couldn’t you have kept…

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A Sad Day

    I am devastated. Truly.   My country may recover, some day, but for now, it is more broken than ever. My fellow citizens have aligned their values with lying, sexism, bullying, racism and a host of other less-than-decent…

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Tears in My Beer

    Here in America, we have this little election thing going on. Monday night found us witnessing something called a presidential debate. As someone with a teensy-eensy bit of organized, scored debate experience, I use the word “debate” loosely,…

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Grave New World

    So this is our life now. This is what we’ll see before going to bed at night and what we’ll read first thing in the morning.   The past week’s various shootings across America have left me feeling…

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240

    Today is America’s birthday. She’s 240 years old. But I swear, she doesn’t look a day over 200.   Mister and I may catch some fireworks. We may fire up the grill. No big plans, just big fun.…

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