Miracles!
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
I volunteered at the local Obama headquarters yesterday for a couple of hours. The HQ is not "official", like in one of those rented places that the campaign pays for, purely volunteer. Miracles is actually a black owned barber shop in a part of t...
Historic Tears!
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Though, I knew the outcome before hand I found myself bawling like a baby during the roll count at the Democratic convention tonight. Each vote, knowing that many switched to Obama, as Clinton had asked them to, was historic -- each was a vote for...
Wearing an Obama Shirt can be Dangerous!
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 days later | 6 comments
My friend, Marilyn, and I headed out for an adventure last Thursday. We'd decided to hit Asheville's Bele Chere Festival! We had a great time, lots of good food, and shopping.
We befriended some kids that were working for Obama and bought T-shir...
We befriended some kids that were working for Obama and bought T-shir...
The Death Penalty
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
I heard much on the news, the blogs, the posts, etc. about the Supremes decison today declaring it unconsitutional to apply the death penatly to child rape. While I've said it wouldn't matter if it were my child, or grandchild (I'll probably commi...
War kills the soul
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 3 comments
With Memorial Day just having passed, many of us are thinking of those who risk their lives now, and those who have given all in the past.
We need to remember Vietnam, we felt the heart ache, still do, see it on the faces of the vets everyday.
S...
We need to remember Vietnam, we felt the heart ache, still do, see it on the faces of the vets everyday.
S...
The Yearly Cancer Check!
posted over 3 years ago | 5 comments
The first few years is a deadly dread, has it come back? What will they tell me?
Then, it becomes something different. What has transpired in my life over the past twelve months? How have I made the world better? How many friends have I lost? Wh...
Then, it becomes something different. What has transpired in my life over the past twelve months? How have I made the world better? How many friends have I lost? Wh...
Roses and Wine
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 13 hours later | 1 comment
Okay, I didn't use the title "Days of Wine and Roses"; let me not commit plagerism.
I have this one climbing rose bush, planted two, one died. Of course, the goal was to grow them over an arbor. So much for that, but the one rose bush is lovely ...
I have this one climbing rose bush, planted two, one died. Of course, the goal was to grow them over an arbor. So much for that, but the one rose bush is lovely ...
Crazy Grandmas!
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 18 hours later | 3 comments
Today I got Grammy Marilyn to switch babysitting days with me, so I could go to see Bill Clinton speak at the local High School. NEVER, has a former president visited my little burb!
Well, not to be out done, Marilyn agrees, but one ups me, takes...
Well, not to be out done, Marilyn agrees, but one ups me, takes...
Distancing yourself for those you love.
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Often life is so very difficult. There are truly people in our lives that we truly love, yet their views, their injuries to us, reach the point that in order to survive me must choose a different road. Both parties are hurt, but for one it's survi...
The Defamation of a Historical Moment!
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
We have the most wonder-filled day before us -- a black man, a woman will be the candidate for the democratic party! Rather than celebrate the progress that shows, breathing in it's revelation, many of us bicker about the woman vs the man.
It sa...
It sa...
