five month old taco

Yesterday Lydia turned five months old. Happily, a Sunday, my optimistic self thought I would be able to post this on the day itself but, alas, Lydia decided it would be a Screaming Day. So here we are. Lydia’s grabbiness continued this past month, so the Excersaucer was set up for her. There is a […]

common thoughts

Ooh, GAMEDAY! Georgia game, too. You know it’s been a less than stellar season for both football programs when this game falls in the 11:30 a.m. slot. Ouch. Well, War Eagle! ‘Tis my favorite game! ___________________________________ The other day I was going over a wordy eleven page ordinance concerning tree conservation for a city in […]

kicking chairs

President Clinton was first elected president when I was in 7th grade. I watched his inauguration with the rest of my Social Studies class that January. Our teacher, Coach Adams, had taught us how the election system worked with the popular vote mingling with the Electoral vote so the swearing-in ceremony was a big Democracy […]

Election Day, November, 1884 — Walt Whitman

Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser- loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon’s white […]