Monthly Archives: November 2009

Just what I needed today…

When my children were about six and three I divorced my first ex-wife. The reasons are not especially important, suffice it to say that, in the vernacular, it was just about all “on me,” notwithstanding that old saw about there … Continue reading

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Sirius-XM NO MORE!

For several years I’ve had XM-Sirius radio (it started with XM, then they merged). I’d listen to it constantly in my car and on my computer while I was working. Until recently, it was free on my computer and then … Continue reading

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TO THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED ME, MOST UNJUSTLY SO

Biologists, philosophers, Even our Saviour Have often sought keys To human behaviour, Now the secret I’ve hit on Makes moralists cringe, But I speak it out loud: We want revenge, & the successful evolution Of humankind Is based on the … Continue reading

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Refugee's New Blog

Different moods, different blogs…I decided to post a bit differently on blogger: http://refugeefromreason2.blogspot.com/.

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Thanksgiving

It is a time for me to be grateful. Were I presumptuous, I would say Thanksgiving is a time for all of us to be so. However, a recent event has taught me clearly to remove “presumption” from my life. … Continue reading

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Ingratitude (Yes, I am stuck here)

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.       - Decimus Magnus Ausonius Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to knowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly any one who does not … Continue reading

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Ungrateful, redux

It takes a long time to know someone’s character.  Someone once told me that her grandmother told her that one had to share a barrel of salt with someone before the character of the other was known. Very long. While … Continue reading

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John F. Kennedy

How strange it is there’s little on the news about the anniversary of death of this fine President today.

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Anger

I am angry, very angry.The anger is almost consuming and definitional. About six weeks ago I learned that I had made an inadvertent billing error for a client for whom I’d done a helluva lot of good work, in terms … Continue reading

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I'm no prize

There are many things in my life of which I’m not especially proud. However, at the end of the day, no matter what I’ve done has always been for the so-called greater good. As I move through the shank of … Continue reading

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