It must be the holidays. I made the julglogg this afternoon (Polish vodka, frozen mixed berries into mason jars for 30 days or so), got ticked over the number of "special events" the kids are already booked up for and remembered to pull out the old "send me an address and I will mail you a card" …

You buy a snow shovel and the next morning there is a skiff of snow upon the land. Gary mentions a bit of the same in south Easlakia.  •  Birds on new birdfeeder, too. We really ought to sign with with those eggheads at Cornell's FeederWatch program. Within an hour of putting it up, a female …

Madness reigns. You write what you want to write. Up too late with nothing - nothing - popping into my head. You have to carry the ball today. Write about anything you like. Let's see how you do. Where's my coffee. What day is it?

I think this goes to the heart of the matter. You cannot create community though a pslamic responsive pattern of conversation and without actually meeting people you really aren't creating relationships - though you may be creating something else that has its own distinct benefits:  •  “The …

Will they play "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" somewhere tomorrow night? Who knows now? No one. But we can guess:  •  “1. Democrats 49, Republicans 49, Independents 2.  •  2. Democrats 239, Republicans 196  •  3. A Sonnet  •  “"Let me not put it to you in any other way:  •  In this campaign I …

OK, simply because there was no Syracuse football game this weekend, that doesn't mean I don't get to rehash the material I have posted when I want on a Sunday. So here again are the questions for the US Mid-term election pool:  •  Name the total number of seats in the US Senate that the Democrats …

Seeing as we are on a roll, let's have an election pool. Not a tough one, not like the sports pool. Nice and simple:  •  Name the total number of seats in the US Senate that the Democrats, Republicans and Independents have...not win as not all are up for election. You are ranked by your deviation …

Oddly quiet. You aren't all out in the hallway waiting to jump me are you?

Speaking of political campaigns, a subject most facinating, what we are witnessing to our south is even more interesting than questions Iggeriffic. Consider this:  •  “As this country's most outspoken and polarizing social conservative, the two-term Pennsylvania Republican senator has been in …