IT’S WHAT WE DO Here in my hometown, the stress of staying at home is unknown. Being ordered to stay home, maybe, we’re an unruly lot, but we are homebodies by nature. The entire reason we choose the isolation of the mountains, forests, vast open valleys and wild, scenic landscapes is to cultivate the peace…
The name says it all, with emphasis on each word. No this isn’t a glorious moon for just the patrician class or members of the DAR… it’s all inclusive and the first major earth centered cosmic event of 2018. Let’s break it down into its four distinct features. Super: When the moon’s…
Can you feel it? Do you sense it? It really says something about our conscious experience that we are totally unaware of the fact that we are collectively spinning around in space to the tune of 1000 miles per hour!* So I guess it should come as no surprise that we…
As we gather on My Front Porch to launch our fourth year together, I guess it’s time to reflect on our own reflections. There is no better time to take inventory, assess progress, analyze set backs, repair and renew than this: The Days of Autumn. I am deeply grateful to have the guidance of the…
September is here. The inevitable show and tell , “WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION”, looms menacingly in every schoolroom and cocktail party, and you..well, you forgot. Somehow June, July and August saw you methodically reporting for office duty. You grabbed bits and snatches of weekend dashes to sporting events and the occasional walk…
In the ancient times of my childhood, now referred to as “mid-century”, one of my earliest memories is of watching a weekly TV show called “I Remember Mama”. It was about a Norweigan family living on Steiner Street in San Francisco in the early 1900’s, before automobiles, when typically people kept livestock, a horse, a cow, some…
WITH MUSIC BY THE IRISH ROVERS My Name is Lulu Hello, we’ve not met, but on the occasion of what might be considered a tragedy, I’d like to introduce myself as one who knew Louie as no human could. They call me Lulu and that suits me fine as names go because it is the…
It is a mid-November Sunday. Snow bunnies have fled their summer cottages, leaving them tidily boarded up and presumably winterized, an assumption to be proven false on the first night, soon to come, that temperatures plummet and indoor plumbing comes explosively undone. Our fix everything guy, Carl, enjoys a nice pre-Christmas bonus every year doing…
No matter how you connect the dots, it’s still The Dog Days of Summer. As you might already be aware, the dog days are upon us. Do you know why we call them the Dog Days? It is because the ancients observed that during the months of July and August, the brightest star in the…
Yay! Today is the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics. I love the Winter Games, I guess I’m just a snow bunny at heart. But there is another reason why the Winter Olympics is my absolute favorite sports event, and that reason is very close to my heart, the heart of Graeagle…I’m looking at it…
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