Reaction to Random Catalysts

Cats are an enigma, and I saw that firsthand today. Having just moved, I had not until today allowed them to roam outside. During this time, General Lee, my gray cat, has been meowing for me to let him outside. For some orientation, I have taken him outside in the pet carrier a number of times... Sign in to see full entry.

People have inabilities as well as abilities. Among my inabilities are cleaning windows, operating window blinds, and parallel parking. When I try to wash windows, I drive myself crazy. I clean one side of a window to the point where I think I have cleaned out all of the spots; then I go to the... Sign in to see full entry.

In the process of a move, putting all of the physical items in their proper place is not all that is involved in getting settled. Being settled is a feeling, a sense of having personal space carved out, and routines re-established or new routines trained and put into place. This is a process. One... Sign in to see full entry.

The comparisons are cropping up more and more, likening President Obama to President Carter. They each encountered an ailing economy and... made it worse. Liberal idealists are to be found on college campuses and across the broad stream of the media. These are the ones who brought Carter/Obama into... Sign in to see full entry.

It's upside down with this government. Who threatens the government the most? Apparently it is the four-year-old girl who tries to sell lemonade; the Amish selling raw milk; the farm kid driving a tractor on the family farm property; the ninety-year-old granny with a diaper who is trying to board a... Sign in to see full entry.

I am guilty of being a pack rat, especially of books. But it is with my arrangement of books that I feel I maintain a degree of order. So, having newly moved, I popped open many of my boxes and began the process of organizing them. I do not just throw them on the shelves. They have to go into an... Sign in to see full entry.

The subject of the homeless came up in the course of discussion at the book chat group I attended tonight (we read John Steinbeck's Cannery Row ). One person said that in one stretch of an undeveloped, woodsy area within city limits, many homeless camp. When the trees shed their leaves, many tents... Sign in to see full entry.

Last night, I followed through for the last time on the obligations I had for my vacated space. In retrospect--learning anew the demands of a moving process--I am glad I allotted myself half a month to move out of the old place. It literally took me to the eleventh hour to clean the last window and... Sign in to see full entry.

The time for my writing has been limited as of late, due to my work schedule and my moving-out busy-ness. For quite some time, I have only been able to put out two of my blogs--this being one of them. But I am pressed to the limit for time, as I write this here, off the cuff, late at night, with... Sign in to see full entry.

Having control of the House of Representatives (courtesy of the landslide 2010 elections), the Republicans ought to have stood their ground with full confidence and determination. The American public is behind them to bring the government back to fiscal responsibility. Alas, the Republican... Sign in to see full entry.