Posted by mcm0704 on June 26, 2020 |
∞ I’m finally back among the living after a week of being really sick. Not the COVID, thank God. Had a bad reaction to some new pain meds the neurologist prescribed for my trigeminal neuralgia. It took several days for that med, and the ones to counteract side-effects of that drug, to leave my system. After […]
Tags: cats, Corona virus, cowboy humor, dogs, Home Country, humor, Julia Marcus, maryann miller, odds and ends, Slim Randles, The Atlantic, the lion shall lie down with the lamb, writing
Posted by mcm0704 on June 15, 2020 |
∞ Good Monday morning. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I did. I worked a bit on my WIP, then did some coloring and quilting. This is a panel for the quilt I’m making for my granddaughter. The center piece is from one of her t-shirts, and the two side pieces I made from material […]
Tags: #mondayblogs, Corona virus, COVID-19, maryann miller, odds and ends, politics, quilting. coloring, The Atlantic, Yascha Mounk
Posted by mcm0704 on July 1, 2016 |
∞ Before getting into the usual Friday fare, I want to let you know that for the next three weeks blog entries will be sparse. I’m getting ready for the two-week drama camp at the Winnsboro Center For the Arts, so my days will be filled with kids and art and drama and fun for the […]
Tags: Christy Sheats, Friday Funnies, gun control, jokes, L.M. Bogad, Lorna Garano, maryann miller, mystery, Terrence Rafferty, The Atlantic, Truthout, women writers, Writing Wisdom, Yes Men
Posted by mcm0704 on June 9, 2014 |
∞ The adage, “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t” is most appropriate when thinking about the controversy over the recent prisoner swap in Afghanistan for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. In an article in The Atlantic, David Rhode gave his perspective, having been a prisoner in Afghanistan at one point, too. The bottom line […]
Tags: Audra McDonald, Billie Holiday, Bowe Bergdahl, David Rhode, Hugh Jackman, joke, Lady Dan at Emerson's Bar & Grill, POW, President Obama, The Atlantic, Tony Awards
Posted by mcm0704 on January 17, 2014 |
∞ A recent story in the Dallas Morning News reported that the reservoirs serving the Dallas-area are 10% lower than a year ago and the continuing drought does not indicate that it’s going to get any better. The area is more than 30 inches shy of normal rainfall over the last six years, yet nobody has […]
Tags: Brad Stuart, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dallas Morning News, drought, elderly, health care, home-based health care, Jonathan Rauch, Medicare, seniors, Sutter Health, Tennessee Williams, The Atlantic
Posted by mcm0704 on March 25, 2013 |
∞ Well, I missed posting a book review yesterday. I decided to take most of the day off from anything online, and that felt good. I think we do need to disconnect sometimes. I went out to lunch with my hubby, and then we watched TV shows we’d taped, and I finished the jigsaw puzzle I’d […]
Tags: Airline safety, Boston Globe, comics, Jacquielynn Floyd, James Fallows, knives on planes, One Big Happy, Patrick Smith, The Atlantic, the Dallas Morning News
Friday’s Odds and Ends
I’m finally back among the living after a week of being really sick. Not the COVID, thank God. Had a bad reaction to some new pain meds the neurologist prescribed for my trigeminal neuralgia. It took several days for that med, and the ones to counteract side-effects of that drug, to leave my system. After […]
Tags: cats, Corona virus, cowboy humor, dogs, Home Country, humor, Julia Marcus, maryann miller, odds and ends, Slim Randles, The Atlantic, the lion shall lie down with the lamb, writing