Adjust Your Dial!
It’s spooky. I keep expecting to have to adjust the vertical hold on my TV. Or to hear the test pattern when I turn it on really early in the morning (you know, before the farm report). And I’m...
View ArticleI’m a Serial Killer
Oh Lord. I’m not quite sure how to handle the guilt. Will I need therapy? Drugs? Electric shock treatments? I considered going to confession. But as a lapsed Catholic I didn’t want to risk it....
View ArticleIt’s Not MY Dream. Is it YOURS?
Many years ago, John decided that he and I should buy a Bed & Breakfast somewhere in picturesque New England and leave the Washington DC area behind us. “No,” I said immediately, the first time he...
View ArticleReality Doesn’t Make It Onto the Nightly News — or into State Legislatures
Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez schooled the House Republicans on the Oversight Committee a few weeks ago when they held a hearing on Planned Parenthood. Naturally, this dose of reality didn’t make it...
View ArticleLet Me Be the 4,894,307th Person to Remind You: VOTE!
Yes, I’m sick of the reminders, too. Sick of the candidates’ signs. Sick of the damn phone ringing with robo-calls and folks who can’t pronounce my name calling during dinner. Still, it is important....
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