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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Mar 22, 2021
- 6 min
On Living and Warring
Years ago one of my sisters got lost for several days while hiking in the mountains. There was a massive search which culminated in her...
- Mar 8, 2021
- 7 min
How To Lose 50 lbs Without Even Trying! (Or Not)
My after picture. The before looks like this but slightly bigger. I lost 50 lbs in 6 months and now weigh less than it says on my...
- Jul 26, 2020
- 6 min
Regarding the State of My Country
You kind of have to laugh to keep from crying. Sometimes my heart just breaks as I watch the lengths the powers of this world are willing...
- Mar 21, 2020
- 6 min
Finding Peace In a Time of Dread
I don’t know if you’ve ever had a freight train barrelling down on you and all you can do is wait for it to hit before. You’re waiting...
- Feb 10, 2020
- 3 min
Rules for Discernment – Particular vs Universal
Once upon a time I had the chance to spend time with an unusual man who was a massage/hypnotherapist who believed we’d all be nudists...
- Dec 11, 2019
- 4 min
Hate In a Time of Trump
In the last few years I’ve had numerous people confess to me that they were really struggling with hate towards Trump, his supporters,...
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
Who Are You Calling a Liar? Parkland Shooting Edition
If we smile or laugh, we’re lying because we should be grief stricken. If we cry hysterically, we’re acting because we’re over the top....
- Sep 5, 2017
- 2 min
Sadly, Being Nice Rarely Changes Things
While I’m usually pretty nice and well behaved here on my blog, it has happened a time or two in real life and on social media that I...
- Jan 27, 2017
- 2 min
Dark Ooze and Webs of Light
This is one of those visions that probably doesn’t require too much explanation. But I wanted to share my basic take on it. In my mind’s...
- Jan 16, 2017
- 5 min
Understanding the Radical Right
In any conflict, it’s important to keep up with what’s going on with the other side. But between social media and the extreme...
- Jan 14, 2017
- 4 min
Trump’s Responsibility to Avoid the Appearance of All Kinds of Evil
Years ago, I looked out the window and saw my 12-year-old chasing her 6-year-old sister and swinging a baseball bat at her while she rode...
- Jan 12, 2017
- 6 min
Stop Arguments Online Like a Mom
My husband is completely convinced that there are Jews somewhere in my Polish lineage. Because three of my great joys in life are being...
- Jan 12, 2017
- 8 min
Why Donald Trump Talks the Way He Does – and Why It Works
Back in college, I made some halfway decent money selling high end knives in people’s homes. One of the perks of the job was that the...
- Jan 11, 2017
- 3 min
About Trump and That Disabled Reporter
So, odds are good that you’ve heard about actress Meryl Streep’s speech the other night where she said politically charged things like...
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
Snowy Day Play
I love videos of animals playing. This one from the Oregon Zoo showing animals in the snow is particularly cute. Isn’t it weird how we’ve...
- Dec 24, 2016
- 3 min
Santa and Grief
A mere week after we held a small burial for Susan, it was Christmas. We attended Christmas Eve children’s mass as usual. After service,...
- Dec 23, 2016
- 5 min
Jesus Saved Our Christmas Dinner
We have a seating problem in our home. Well, two of them actually. The first is that our chairs don’t match and the folding chairs have...
- Dec 22, 2016
- 1 min
The Christmas Bird
Instead of doing my Christmas shopping a couple of years ago, I recorded this. It’s perfect for sharing with the kids, if they are the...
- Dec 21, 2016
- 7 min
All People Are Real
I’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I have a dissociative disorder. A derealization disorder, in fact. Which means that when my...
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