Today, a woman called a hotline that I answered. Her ballot was so confusing that she was talking of throwing it away if she couldn’t make sense of it. Why does voting need to belong to the most literate? I have a sense that this country is ready to take on the challenge of a […]

So long as our cities, our houses, our rooms, our furniture, our equipment, our clothes and our jewelry, so long as our language and our feelings fail to reflect the spirit of our times in a plain, simple and beautiful way, we shall lag infinitely far behind our ancestors; no lie can conceal these weaknesses. […]

In trying to rest my brain from debates and constant worrying about the elections, I took the night off and watched a movie. Nice and relaxing, eh. It was called “Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove made Bush presidential.” To be frank, the show was a wee slow (and made me appreciate all the more Michael […]

Watched the debates last night. Frankly, I find myself more and more uneasy as the debates go on. Blatant lies, egos and empty promises. Out now is an interesting article about Bush being wired during the debates.

I woke up this morning to a too eager 6 a.m. alarm and rain fog out the window. Simply lovely. The day would be best spend cuddled with soft yellow watching gems of inspiration from Lynda. I also awoke to calves so sore from two days of woods hikes. How I have missed that particular […]