This is something I have thought a lot about recently -

Is it the permission slip obtained from the government? 

Is it found in the permissions to have sex granted through religious rites which are conducted? 

Is it the people involved?  

Is it all of those things?… Read full post »

Most people do not know what Factor V (factor five) is so I will start there. 

Factor V is a protien in the blood which helps your blood to clot when you cut yourself.  It is the "stuff" that helps to make your platelets "sticky" so that they clump together… Read full post »

Opinions are like rectums... everyone has one.  Most of us have more than one.  

In most cases, I will defend unto death your right to express your opinion.   Why?  Because it's your opinion and you are entitled to both hold it and express it.   

Do not EVER confus… Read full post »

20 years ago come August I learned I had cervical cancer.  I was three months pregnant.  For twins.  It was a roller coaster ride from Hell I would not wish on my worst enemy. 

My doctor, a man who normally had a wonderful bedside manner, gave me the weekend to… Read full post »

He was skinned as well. 

Lightning Medicine Cloud was not a person - he was an extremely rare non-albino white buffalo born on 12 May, 2011.  He was murdered on 04 May 2012.  The texas Rangers, Department of Homeland Security, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Hunt County Sheriff's Department… Read full post »

When I started thinking about writing this particular post I made a list of all the places and things which I wanted to include.  Unfortunately my list was a couple of pages long and so I have to winnow it down to a reasonable length - sort of by category.  Today's… Read full post »

The title of this post comes from a book by Anne McCaffrey (1926 - 2011), who was, imho, the "Queen" of science fiction/fantasy. In the book a group of people with some interesting abilities perform some interesting feats using only their minds.   (Give it a read if that partiular genre… Read full post »

Doc refused to...

My siblings tell me it's not worth wasting a bullet... 

My husband LAUGHS at me...  

Even the kids and the cats think it's funny I want to be shot at the moment. 

Of course if I wasn't in serious pain I likely wouldn't want to be… Read full post »

Earlier today my youngest, her hearing ear dog and I went to the store.  We were at the end of a row of cars, IN the crosswalk where people are required to stop so that people can USE the crosswalk when a twatwaffle with "CHOOSE LIFE" plastered all over his vehicle… Read full post »

Mr. Zimmerman... I'd REALLY like to know what it was about a 16 year old wearing a hoodie, carrying a bag of skittles & an iced tea while walking down the street that "made" you think he was suspicious... 

You see... 

I'm a mom to children. 

I'm a mom… Read full post »

All of this discussion of religion, contraception and abortion has gotten me to thinking...   and some people aren't going to like it.  

For the sake of argument... 

It violates MY religious beliefs for organ and tissue transplants to take place.   Additionally, it violates… Read full post »

Here's the answers to my post yesterday...  

 A congregation of alligators. 

 A shrewdness of apes.

A cete of badger. 

A sleuth of bears. 

A volery of birds. 

An obstinacy  of buffalo.

A coalition of cheetah. 

A murder of crows. 

A piteousness… Read full post »

I have a bit of odd trivia... the following are all groups of animals... without using a search engine how many do you know?  

 A Congregation of?  

A Shrewdness of? 

A Cete of?  

A Sleuth of?  

A Volery of? 

An Obstinacy of?

A Coalition of?

A Murder… Read full post »

Yes, I know... elections are boring things most of the time.   But in this season of caucuses and primaries it pays to remind voters of a couple of things...  

First:  Presidential primaries/caucuses are typically NOT on the same day as you winnow out senator and congressman… Read full post »

Great big huge tears... 

Crocodile tears... but still huge tears...   

I got an email elsewhere which read "Do you like well hung men?"  

I sent him back an email which read

"I LOVE well hung men!   How are you at tying knots?"  

I'm… Read full post »

Honor is a noun, a verb and an adjective.  

As a noun honor is defined as:  honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions

As a verb honor is defined as:  to hold in honor or high respect; revere.

As an adjective honor is defined as:  of, pertaining to, or… Read full post »

The Pilot and I got up this morning and I went to make coffee only to discover that, for some obscure reason, my brand spanking new (I have had it a WEEK) coffee pot would not brew coffee.  

I do not function well without coffee...   and after an hour… Read full post »

I love this guy.  His name is Aaron Huey.   Watch and listen...

Aaron Huey

Pay close attention to the map he shows... and to the history, which is provably factual.    Read full post »

As we all know, I normally reside in a very rural area.   Out here in the sticks I appear to have conquered the problem of saggy britches... at least in the kids who come to my house.   What did I do? 

*Laughs evilly*   

 I laid a staple gun and… Read full post »

Standing, looking at myself in the mirror I see the evidence of what brought this satisfied smile to my face.   The pink cheeks.  The whisker burn.  I smell the evidence and feel it too.  His cologne on my skin.   That slight, subtle smell which no amount of showering wi… Read full post »

From all appearances Jamie is a nice young man.   Twenty years old, good head on his shoulders, starts college in January.  He has dreams.  His head is screwed on straight, he works two jobs and he's going places.   Hard to believe the kid I met six years ago who had bee… Read full post »

A crusty curmudgeon and a cast of characters taught me the wonder of Santa's Cause...   

My Crusty Curmudgeon Father:  

In October of 1981 my father (pictured above in 1990) was admitted to Northern Michigan Hospitals to have bypass surgery done in the hopes of… Read full post »

What could those 4 things possibly have in common?  You will see... 

Last night I was speaking to a former (you will see why I say "former" in a moment) friend and he informed me that he had purchased his wife a leopard cub.   Now, normally I would probably… Read full post »

You are, each and every one of you, unique unto yourselves.  I have loved you  since the moment I first learned of your existence.  I will cease loving you when I cease breathing and even then I would hope you remember being loved by me.  

We have learned together over… Read full post »

Herman Cain can bump uglies with who the hell ever he wants to...  I DO NOT CARE so long as his paramour is (a) not ME and (b) a consenting adult! 

I said the SAME damn thing about Bill Clinton...   I don't CARE who he's bumping uglies with... so… Read full post »