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Keep the internet open.  We've heard that we need to sacrifice our privacy to prevent piracy, pornography, and now they just want law enforcement to have the right to snoop at any time.  That's what it's always been about.  Please support our Canadian neighbors by denying PM Harper this right to their data.   Thank you.…

As the sun's last rays begin to fade from the sky

I turn towards you

Your eyes give a hint of a smile

I reach out for your hands

Pulling me into your arms

I let the day's worries melt away

There are so many problems to…

A surprise birthday lunch for a friend at a local Fredericton restaurant.

What better way to spend Sunday mornings than hanging out with the kitties at my local SPCA! I get to play with them and make a fuss over them, as part of the cat socialization program that aims to help their wellbeing and adoptability.

Delayed mail means a second birthday! Yay! Rosie supervises my unwrapping.

Recently, I turned the big 3-0. For some time before that, I wavered between wanting the milestone to slide under the radar completely unnoticed, and wanting to embrace it.

Then, I found myself speaking with a friend of mine who was doing this cool thing called Project 34. She had gotten the idea from a friend of hers. The basic concept was that on…

     Almost every morning i awake from the strange world of a fantastic dream. I keep notebooks and pens right next to the bed within arm's reach, so i can write down the most interesting ones. Like most people, i imagine, if i don't get the details down within just a few moments of waking, my memory of the dream just fades away, piece by piece, until nothing is…

Furry Brotherly Love…

When it's really love

You find yourself willing to make sacrifices

Willing to do things you don't like to see them smile

Giving of yourself, even when it's hard to

Learning to pick your battles

Wanting your needs to be met

But also wanting to meet…

my mother on her dentures, " Owen, you don't understand, they're in there like a torpedoed ship,

half up and half down."

26 years ago today, the Challenger tragedy touched the entire nation, but nowhere more than Concord, NH schoolkids.  My son was a 5th grader.  Every morning, everyone had watched the launch preparations on local cable station, which had a special feed, and seen the technician give Christa McAuliffe an apple, and the astronauts take that walk to the bus to go out to the…

Risen from the ashes

The dispair will soon be vanquished

In its place, a new hope has come

Though the dark clouds loom overhead

Victory is at hand

Worry not, my friend

Peace will be found…

Now that a national hissy fit has been thrown regarding proposed legislation to stop rampant internet piracy (thus cowing the bovine politicians we sometimes mockingly refer to as our 'leaders' into submission),  I think we should look at the real issue at hand regarding SOPA. 

Money.

Nothing more, nothing less. Unless you consider trafficking in…

Last week, my home state of New Mexico marked its centennial anniversary of statehood. Before that, it was a territory. And before that, it was part of Mexico. And so on. 

New Mexico was given statehood in 1912. They taught us that in school, like they taught us about Coronado searching for the seven cities of gold. When you're a child, you just accept these…

I watch as you sleep

And I wonder where you are.

Can I join you now?

Sometimes a blossom,

Sometimes only a petal.

Always a flower.

My absolute favorite dessert is a raisin-nut pie that my mother used to make and now my son makes for family holiday dinners (all two of them).  It's made with raisins, walnuts, Karo syrup and I don't know what else, other than it gives me 10 lbs. and 2 cavities per slice.  The reason I love it so much goes back to my 7th birthday.  My mother made me a gorgeous cake, a…