Author: scribe

Last night I had a very bad dream in which my October Social Security Retirement Check did not come. The rent was due, the cupboards nearly empty, and prescriptions needed filling at full price, because of the donut hole....

On the streets, men who use women for sex can be arrested for being “johns”. In Washington, men who use women like “John” McCain does get standing ovations.   Nice try, John. But no cigar. Yes, you...

VP pick Sara Palin frightens me.   She frightens me because I fully understand the power of ultra conservative, fundamentalist women and I know how many of them there still are. All I have to do is go sit in a diner in any...

(Hey, it could be YOU someday, TOO!) From the old days, when as a nurse I could run long hallways for 16 hours straight and race stock cars and snowmobiles on weekends, to life on a mobility scooter is one helluva adjustment!...

This is my 67th Fourth of July and this is a Eulogy. I need to lay to final rest, once and for all, the last tattered shreds of my love for and blind faith in this land of mine. To lose a long beloved one, is very hard. Even...