How will the past couple of weeks be remembered in 10 years? In 50 years? In 100? The fact that enough people voted for a felon, an adjudicated rapist, a documented liar, and a generally smarmy man to elevate him to the highest office in the land—not once, but twice—is something psychiatrists and sociologists will study for centuries. In part, the answer to that question will depend on what he does now. Will he rise to the occasion and become […]
Wheel of the Year
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Suddenly, it’s time to get the garden ready, to get ahead of the yard work, to clear the cobwebs and dust out of the house. For me, this is the time of year when the winter blahs have the strongest hold. I’m at the end of my reserves. The sun is still weak, and the nights are still dark. Summer still feels miles away. They call it Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Some years ago, the medical community accepted it as […]
Here we go again! Aren’t the holidays stressful enough without Mercury Retrograde hanging around for the rest of the year? As for most of life’s little challenges, our two choices seem to be to spend an unhealthy amount of time bitching about it or to carry on. I don’t see why we can’t do a little of both. Mercury Retrograde Astronomy Lesson The innermost planet, Mercury zooms around the sun in only 88 days compared to the Earth’s more sedate […]