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What you see is the expression on my face of exasperation upon learning that my fellow packsters were going to invite a stranger into OUR pack! I just could not wrap my mind around why our happy home would need another dog ... and all I could think was, "oh woof is me!"

So, here I was as happy as any four legged family member could be and Pop and Mom…

It's Wednesday night

He's out at the bar with the guys

Instead of being at home

Tucking his little girl in

Reading her Green Eggs & Ham

A little voice tries to speak to him

He hears it…

The way that I feel when I am with you

Takes my breath away

I still get so nervous when you're so close

Like a girl who has yet to experience her first kiss

It's such an intense thing

When you're not here

I find that I…

I really should be doing laundry and getting ready to go to the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in two days.  However, Saturday’s show at Eddie’s Attic deserves a few words. 

Peyton Tochterman opened the evening with a fabulous set.  I have enjoyed his music in the past, but I think this set was my favorite yet.   Last year at Woodyfest, his was the only CD I purchased (I had said I wasn’t going to buy any, but such is the life of a music junkie).  His stories were both funny and moving. …

'The Senator and the Banker'

copyright 2012 by Richard Reiley

The Senator asked the Banker some really tough questions

Like how are your children? How was your day?

Then the Banker walked out with the billion dollars that he stole

While every one else looked the other way

He wasn't sworn under oath to tell the truth

They didn't want to challenge his dignity

Which he earned by legally cheating…

On July 4, two teams of researchers from CERN, Europe's center for particle physics research, made an extraordinary announcement, reporting the discovery of a new particle that appeared to match the profile of the long-sought Higgs boson.  One team, using the CMS detector, announced the discovery of a particle with a mass of 125 GeV (giga-electron volts), and the other, using the ATLAS detector, reported a mass of 126 GeV.  In tandem, they had found impressive evidence for a major…

Mural in a South Georgia town...

  I’m not sure how to write about who my father is in a way that will be clear enough for others to understand how incredible he is.   He is crazy—but the good kind of crazy.  He is generous.  He is compassionate.  He has always given me the space to explore and believe things that didn’t line up with what he believes.  He is always on “my side” even when he is trying to give…

The sun beats down on my head

The sweltering heat makes it hard to breath

But the gentle breeze blows

Giving me random moments of relief

Cooling off my skin

Top down

Chevelle blaring…

'Home from the War'

copyright 2012 by Rick Reiley

Three months til Christmas

Then we'll see her again

If the war doesn't interfere

With her plans to fly in

But war keeps you guessing

You know what that means

Someimes it takes the wind out of

Our sweetest dreams

(Refrain)

'Jingle Bells' takes on a whole new…