Daily Tidbit40

I have a terrible fear of spiders. Earlier, I was at the post office when a spider crawled along the counter. In deference to the now-deaf Buddhist monk behind me, it lives.  ~ Emery...

Weekly Rumination6

NEARBY NEWS This week, I’m ruminating about the news. The news has been making a lot of news lately and the much-maligned press corps has been in the news as often as their reports of the news. But, I don’t care about that. I want to focus on local news...

Daily Tidbit38

Women are not the weak creatures society would have you believe. For instance, if women fainted at the sight of blood, they’d be out cold several days each month.  ~ Emery...

Daily Tidbit37

“There are only two types of portrait paining; the serious and the smirk… and we always use the serious for professional people (except actors sometimes), and the smirk for private ladies and gentlemen who don’t care so much about looking clever.”  ~...