Greetings and Salutations; If, by the by, this essay seems a bit disjointed at times, I beg your patience. It… Read more
Category: Ruminations
General philosophical musings on bees and beekeeping
How Blind are Whites to the Systemic Racism in America?
Greetings and Salutations. Recently, the Right-Wing has found something far more interesting than the Pandemic, or the spike in attacks… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 38 – Thoughts on the Impeachment
Greetings and Salutations. Today, February 10, 2021, the Senate Trial of #3×2 started with the House Impeachment Managers presenting some… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 37 – Should the 2d Impeachment happen?
Greetings and Salutations; Today, #3×2’s remaining lawyers spoke at length on the Senate Floor, arguing that the Senate Trial should… Read more
Some thoughts on Truth…and how complicated it can be.
Greetings and Salutations. A friend of mine posted the image to our right on Facebook today. It, upon first reading,… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 36 – A Warning to Democrats, Liberals and Progressives.
Greetings and Salutations; The smoke has yet to clear over the events of the 6th of January. However, it is… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 35 – INSURRECTION
Greetings and Salutations; It is 2021/01/11 as I write this essay. It has taken me a few days to begin… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 34, More Election Reflections
Greetings and Salutations. This is the Second collection of musings on the political situation in America. My first (somewhat lengthy)… Read more
Ten years later…or how life can go Pear Shaped. Adventures with Hep C
Some of the writing here may be uncomfortable to read…fair warning! I am, for the first time, going to discuss… Read more
Is “Cancel Culture” a bad thing?
Greetings and Salutations! As I was poking around on Facebook, one of the folks I follow posted this meme for… Read more
Sifting through the Ashes, Part 33 – Election Reflections.
Greetings and Salutations… Now that the smoke is clearing a bit, and the dust settling from the 2020 Presidential Election,… Read more
Sifting through the Ashes, Part 32 – Good Vs. Evil
Greetings and Salutations; We are reaching the end of a very long and chaotic time. The numbers are in, and… Read more
Charter Schools – Boon? Or Bane?
Greetings and Salutations; Last year, I wrote an essay on the issue of education in America. I covered many topics… Read more
Sifting through the Ashes – Part 31. The SCOTUS and the Congress
Greetings and Salutations. The events of these past few years have caused me to rethink some aspects of Government. I… Read more
Some thoughts on 09/11: Are we driven by fear?
Greetings and Salutations; Today is the 19th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Towers by fanatics that had… Read more
The Vietnam War – An American View
Greetings and Salutations; I was going to get this post written in April of this year, as a meditation on… Read more
The Results we get from a crappy educational system.
Greetings and Salutations; I had the following dialogue with a very young lady (who started reproducing very early in life)… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 30, The Postal Service
Greetings and Salutations… The closer we get to November, the more insane the actions of the administration become. Over the… Read more
Talking about Mental Health…And America
Greetings and Salutations; As I have touched on a number of times on this blog, mental health issues are a… Read more
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 29 – predicting the future???
Greetings and Salutations; I wanted to take a minute here, to look at the path the Republican Party is on…. Read more