Category: BigDangDeal

Today was a big dang day.  As big dang days go. We went Splorin.  Better known as exploring.  Yes, at the end of the morning, we just got in the car, and started heading west. By no means are we

Today, I was reminded, again, and again, just how many good people are in my life.  I am so thankful for this.  They are golden. They are beautiful.  They embody grace, and decency, and benevolence. This is not a new

Tonight,  I am thinking of my ancestors.  The ones who came across the Atlantic Ocean, on boats.  My genealogy reads like a carbon copy of itself.  All the way across the board, on both my Mom & Dad’s lineages. All

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”  ― Friedrich Nietzsche Music. I love it.  The things it can do to us.  The emotions it invokes.  The way it

  I was born into a Catholic family, and by the time I was a few days old, I was baptized into the Catholic faith. Little Polly Cecile, swaddling… in the arms of my Godparents Hilda and Bob Wehrman.  I

There are a bunch of cool ants down in Cincinnati.  Specifically, they are Leaf Cutting Ants, and they reside at the Cincinnati Zoo.  I understand that Zoos can be a topic of controversy, like anything else.  There are supporters and

Well, I’m a little on the downside for a lot of reasons today.  Little things which have added up. Comparatively, to other people’s woes, mine are few.  Teensy. But nonetheless, my hairs are bristled.  You know, like when you stub

I write this installation of KW because of a recent discussion on Facebook.  The topic touched on my concerns / fear of discrimination against Gays.  I answered here, on KW, because the text is so lengthy. The last question posed

Bill Paxton died today.  I’ll tell you, it really made me sad.  There are a few people in the “acting and music world” who I completely like.  And he was one of them.  The thing of it is, I didn’t

The Great Big Flicks.  I can only remember going to the Drive-In Movies once in my life.  Seriously.  I was pretty young.  I barely have the memories of this. But I do recall certain things. Mom & Dad did not