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The Kiss The Kiss is a watercolor that I painted yesterday. The characters of focus in this painting are two trees.  I am fascinated with trees. Trees hold all the knowledge in the world. As they stand guard over a neighborhood, forest, city town, they are witness to all the comings and goings of man. The things a tree must see totally intrigues me. So it is with my “Lady Tree” she is my queen, what I long to be. A couple of months ago I began painting her as I painted my dear friend and... Read Full Story

Sounds silly, but the title is exactly what it is a welcome back to ME.  I am reviving, or attempting to revive my desire to be a blogger. You see, not just any ole’ blogger, but a soap blogger.  I love to get on my soap box.  In the grand ole’ style of soap boxing, I seek to establish the ME soapblog.  That is why I have established my own ezine, why I will establish my own radio show, why I have taken up painting, why I do pretty much everything that I do.  I like to walk the walk of self... Read Full Story

Water Tower Place Steve and Mary in Chicago House of Blues Chicago Mike Ditka's Chicago It has been a long winter thus far. My sweetie and I had about hit the end of our rope. It started in December with way too much snow and cold. Many trips across hill and stream to fulfill family traditions, only to end up with the much dreaded flu. (I did not have it then, mine staggered itself by two weeks only to take what could have been a simple two weeks of illness in our home to an entire month of... Read Full Story

As I approached my heart quickened with the sound of drums, all sorts of drums keeping a steady 4 – 4 pattern.  Not all the patterns were the same, some of them fast, others slow, the timbre was varied but the rhythm was sustained.  I turned the corner to find children dancing with anticipation over the possibility of getting to hold stick in hand. The growing fervor of drum and beat was moving them beyond containment.  Weaving my way through little ones, no taller than my thigh, I looked... Read Full Story

Give me a break!  I feel bamboozled!  The Obama’s had a private CHEF?  Okay, this just blew the simple Hyde Park, one of the crowd facade!  Please, does anyone else get it?  Seriously, we are suppose to believe they are just a normal family, doing normal things.  Whatever! It is politics as usual.  No, America, there was no “suzy-homemaker” living in that house. Check it out, Oh and how much do our Senators make a year, how many grassroot, community organizers afford the salary of a... Read Full Story

If this old addage, (actually biblical in nature) is true then the United States is in for a wonderful four years.  Yes, I know there are many of my regular readers that are scratching their heads and saying, “wait a minute, you did not support the election of President Obama.”  To you, I say, you are right.  I did not.  But, that does not mean that it is the man that is the problem. It was and is the many things surrounding him.  I still do not support many of his ideas.  He has his reasons... Read Full Story

Thanks to my new lime green reading glasses, Lenscrafter and Vogue. Okay, so it set me back almost $300! I finally broke down and did it. I went for my eye exam and decided that the little $1 readers from the Dollar Tree were no longer going to carry the reading load I have before me. I have just begun the daunting task of undoing the cart before the horse, and am rearranging the steed and putting it in front of the cart, which is what I should have done many a year ago. You see, I am... Read Full Story

Well, it has indeed been a busy week in the White House.  Around the world we are all settling in to a new President, one who seems to be swift with pen, and has obviously, while remaining silent has been cultivating the changes that would be in place before the end of the month of January.  A man of action, now that is a good thing.  So if he is so swift of pen, then some of these “to do’s” will not be difficult to implement.  He is an education president, so it should be in keeping with the... Read Full Story

This picture was taken on the 20th of January at 7:10 in the morning, by SRC. The glow of the sunrise signals a new day, the morning after, the cold is present,but yet on the horizon is a warm glow and a promise of a power far greater than any of us. Beyond the wires, the brick, the cement, the mortar, off in the distant is what graces the roof tops of every community in the United States,... a church steeple. Good Morning America, and God Bless! Read Full Story

“If stories come to you, care for them and learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.” Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel Our stories are not supposed to be horded and kept in the recesses of our brains, but rather, they should be thrown to the four corners of the world. Just like love, we cannot worry ourselves with the constant concern that it is returned. We know that when we give we receive if not immediately, then ultimately... Read Full Story