Robert Reich Tax Deal Confirms the Republican Worldview Apart from its extraordinary cost and regressive tilt, the tax deal negotiated between the president and the Republicans has another fatal flaw. It confirms the Republican worldview. Americans want to know what happened to the economy and how to fix it. At least Republicans have a story — the same one they’ve been flogging for thirty years. The bad economy is big government’s fault and the solution…
I figured the other day it was time to step up and be the adult I’ve become instead of still trying to hang onto notions of me as a bohemian short story writer living in a one room French Quarter apartment – a romantic notion that I secretly harbor even to this day. So I looked around the other night and being as present as I could be here is what I observed: Tatjana was…
Apparently Pantonne announced its color for 2011 – Honeysuckle – a vibrant color for a year that is supposed to be filled with dazzle. Huh? Well, maybe their tea leaves are telling them something mine aren’t. I see next year as another one of those interstitials where we let go of the trapeze in 2008 and started plunging downward in a rapid spiral in 2009, and then 2010 we were sort of floating up and…
Tax the rich, feed the poor. Oh right, no can do, because everyone is pissed off at Obama because of the economy, so now the saying goes like this: Feed the rich, fuck the poor.
Our neighbor who is a musician – WAIT, ARE ALL MY NEIGHBORS MUSICIANS? – almost – anyway, one of our neighbors who is a musician put together a holiday CD for us with Spirit as the theme and one of the songs on it is Van Morrison singing Enlightenment. I love this song because it speaks to nonattachment, my theme of the new year. Because as I practice my meditation on Wednesday nights its all…
Our friend from Spain, Alejandro, left just short of being able to celebrate just one more night with us, and that was last night, the 7th night of Hanukkah and the 7th of December. We usually have people over for the last night but because of other plans, we decided to do it on the 7th and it was impromptu and had all the qualities of spontaneity and yet fun glommed onto it. At the…
The writer/director of The Louise Log informed me the missing episodes are available on metacafe – #5, 6, 7 and 10. I watched them and when I went to respond in this cyberworld I didn’t know whether to respond to her comments on my blog, comment on her blog, comment on metacafe, comment on the YouTube site for The Louise Log and since I’m no longer on Facebook I decided to just post my response…
Today is December 7th, the one year anniversary of the first day I laid eyes on Tin for the first time. I remember that day like it was yesterday, first of all I was in shock – I had just buried my mother on Wednesday Dec 2nd, took ill on Thursday Dec 3rd, got the phone call on Friday Dec 4th, saw this iPhoto pic that our attorney took with his great aunt on Saturday…
Every Monday seems to follow the same pattern – I’m not that interested in it to begin with and then it seems to live up to the mania that I associate with the day. This day started late to get up, missed the dog walk (they were nuts naturally), phone calls, then Tin to the doctor for his 21 month check up. Where the doctor said he was developmentally advanced (always what a mother wants…
Last night, our friend came over to light the menorah as he was headed back to Spain today, and then my neighbor and his two friends stopped by on the way home from the Quarter so we all lit the menorahs. Right before another friend had dropped off four perfectly made soufganiyots that were divine! After we lit the candles one of the guys told me that this was the first year he wasn’t home…