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The Theory of Everything, and Why I Can’t Sustain a Professional Blog

I’m someone with few boundaries, which is probably not a good thing on a social level. However, my boundarilessness (word? why not!) manifests sometimes in being able to make connections among things that seem disparate. Some folks I work with would call that “alchemy” and simple mathematics would then say that if I can make […]

Sex Addiction is NOT Synonymous with Gay

Larry Craig. The whole story has devolved from it’s opening low point to the usual discussion where “gay” and “homosexual” are being equated with perversion. The public just LOVES the mens’ bathroom thing. It’s dirty and embarassing — just the way America feels about sex in general.
I saw a blog that equated this downfall […]

Strictly for Martha

Tardy Slip

I gotta tell you, the vocabulary of elementary school is rushing back to me now that Blake is starting Kindergarten. Also rushing back to me is the authority hierarchies of those prim ladies in the office, the ones that you had hoped never to see when you were a kid. They were the ones you […]

Digital Tools, Analog Results

Ever take an online personality test? I was intrigued by what I saw at Wags Outside (one of my favorite C’ville Blogs) so did the same thing. I never know if this stuff is self-perpetuating, but, I always come out with similar results on these things, and am never surprised. At any rate, here I […]

Old Wineskins

I am keenly aware that my minister links to my blog from his, The Farthest Shore. As such, I feel kind of hesitant at times to express some of my thoughts about faith. But, sometimes I feel that being an agitator, and making folks uneasy, comes so easily to me that it must have something […]

The House That Happened

Well, when I least expected it, we found a house. THE house. It’s in Hollymead, and it was built in 1979. It’s like a storybook cottage with a gazebo and fish pond in the back yard. Instead of killing ourselves trying to buy it now, we simply asked the owner if we could rent it […]

A Mark in Time

Tomorrow, my son Blake goes for his first day of Kindergarten. We have spent the last few days together — an unusual occurrence since he’s been in day care. I wanted him to leave day care for a bit so that he could have some transition time, and I could drink in all of […]

Barbara Took The Wheelchair Ride, Once Again, 48 Years Ago Today

When I was born in 1959, my Dad was the administrator of the Jersey City Medical Center. That was a plum political appointment he received in the days of the John Kenny mayoralty in the early 50s. Anyone that knows about the history of the Irish mob in Jersey City knows that these administrations that […]

The Not-Eternal Me Possibility

I was driving Blake home last night from Fredericksburg to Charlottesville. We had spent the day visiting our old neighborhood, and he had a chance to play with his first, and still only, “girlfriend,” Brianna. He fell asleep in the car with an old iBook on his lap, watching Monsters, Inc. He had a wonderful […]