Yeah, we always knew it………
Annette | September 30, 2006
Truth will out……….
Annette | September 28, 2006
A reminder…………..
Annette | September 24, 2006
“Republicans, when you took your oaths of office, you placed your hands on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution.
“You did not place your hands on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”
- Jamie Raskin, professor of law at American University
They are not gone…….
Annette | September 22, 2006
They were beautiful boys, as different as could be.
John was tall, slender, graceful, moving in a slow lope, a kind of dance that made you stop and watch him as he passed by. He didn’t say much, his voice was low. I think he was shy, maybe, or just cautious enough to watch [...]
Two threads in the dying light, and love…….
Annette | September 22, 2006
Tonight is the beginning of my favorite Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah. Translated, it means “Head Of The Year.”
No, we’re not going to services tonight, nor will we tomorrow, even though the Jewish heritage of our family is present in everything we do and say during this time of the year. We observe in [...]
Time to get out the Last Will and Testament,
Annette | September 20, 2006
time to review the trusts that will kick in when I kick off, and time to make sure all things dealing with the end of the world are in order. Not that I anticipate Probate Court lasting longer than the end of time, but reading this assures me that our time here on Earth [...]
I am going to believe that this really happened…………
Annette | September 20, 2006
because I cannot imagine a universe, solar system, place, thought, moment where Ann Richards does not exist.
Her lifelong friend, Liz Smith, reported in her column today the following:
The message I brought back from Austin is what I am told Ann said in her final words just before dying. “I don’t know where I [...]
Somewhere in the stars, E. B. White and Carl Rose are giggling……….
Annette | September 19, 2006
Want to know a secret?
Annette | September 19, 2006
Tonight, the second-best show on TV premieres for its – what? – third season?
The secret is that this show, out of all the lawyer shows currently on the air, and all the lawyer shows that have gone before, is closest to what practice really is like in a law firm. No, it’s [...]
And now he has a brand new orifice, one he’s truly earned………
Annette | September 18, 2006
I wonder if Little Lord Pissypants has the slightest clue that Keith Olbermann ripped him, in the most eloquent and articulate fashion, a new asshole tonight in his Comment (reproduced below without any legal permission, because, you know, some things are so good, you just have to take them without apology):
The President of [...]
Reading Ken Bruen…………..
Annette | September 18, 2006
I’m reading his 2003 work, “The Magdalen Martyrs,” and, yes, have already ordered everything this guy has ever written, because he’s that good. Compelling. Smart. Funny. Irreverent. Spot on. Irish.
Ah, of course.
Irish.
But, while I’m luxuriating in this beautiful day washing over us out here overlooking Hillsborough [...]
Something’s rotten in the State of Ohio…………
Annette | September 16, 2006
Granted, it’s not the smartest state in our Union, having given itself over to that governor, James A. Rhodes, back in the sixties, who spent a huge amount of money to put up a sign at the PA border that welcomed you to “The Tomato Juice State.” Later, the same thug – who was [...]
A real conservative, a real patriot……..
Annette | September 15, 2006
Christopher Buckley’s political (and literary) credentials are intelligent, well-deserved, and sound, so when I saw what he’d written, I knew it had to be put here, just for my own peace of mind. This is the thinking of a right-minded American, in so many ways, who loves his country more than the rabid, murderous, [...]
As if today weren’t perfect enough……….
Annette | September 12, 2006
it went down with a roar tonight, as if it were performing only for us.
Come to think of it, it probably was. That’s the kind of day it’s been, when even the sunset does its very best, just to make sure we smile at it.
So we toasted the sunset, because, after all, when it [...]
A book that should be read………..
Annette | September 12, 2006
by everyone in the world.
“The First and Final Nightmare Of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir.”
No, I’m serious. It’s not long, not even 200 pages, and it can be read – albeit not easily – in a day, even with breaks for lunch, dinner, dancing, and practicing one’s Italian/yoga/Thai cooking/looking ravishing.
It’s a son’s story [...]
Back, bold, and brilliant – BOB SEGER!
Annette | September 12, 2006
I can’t even remember buying his last CD, it was that long ago, and it didn’t thrill me. Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band made some of the best rock’n’roll of my fine young life, and today, listening to his new CD, “Face The Promise,” that just came out a few hours ago, [...]
Out of the cosmos, Little Boy pops up with one word………
Annette | September 12, 2006
– – – followed by a few dozen well-chosen ones, letting me know what he’s been thinking about today. Every day. This Marine Corps Lt. Col. takes this stuff very seriously, as you can tell from the things he’s written for this site, for me, for you.
I take him seriously, but when [...]
In between seasons……….
Annette | September 12, 2006
The days are warm, the nights are cool, cool enough to require a heavy cotton blanket pulled up and over us during the night when we both realized it was changing, and even in the dark, as he tucked the sides to make sure we were snug, snuggled, and snuggling, we smiled at each other [...]
It would not seem possible………
Annette | September 11, 2006
….. that Little Lord Pissypants is getting dumber and more inappropriate, doing things that are so egregiously stupid, wrong, disrespectful – ah, let’s just call them “dumb.”
But, seeing him do this today – – you just have to wonder exactly how far up his sorry ass his head really is.
There you have it – [...]
If it’s Friday, it must be shellfish
Annette | September 9, 2006
Well, now, it was never as fancy as this, but it was a tradition that somehow came back to me today, when I realized it was a tradition I hadn’t even noticed.
Fridays in our house as I was growing up were observed as Days of Abstinence. That meant, according to Catholic rules, we [...]
