Category: Personal

Today watching the 5 p.m. news I saw my first campaign advertisement. It was for Rudy Giuliani. I tend to agree with Dr. Steven Taylor at Poliblog who proclaims …

From the Priestap family. ExSubNuke asked about my kids' age. My oldest is 5. That's chocolate milk around his mouth, by the way. My daughter is 2 1/2 and …

This Thanksgiving is low key for the Priestap family. Instead of traveling down to Toledo to spend the weekend with my family and my husband's family, we're staying home …

By the time this piece publishes, Mr. Duckie and I should be well into the hinterlands of northern New Hampshire. As an early birthday present to myself , I'm …

A week ago today I had an automobile accident, which happened in a split second of distraction and peculiar circumstances. Since that event, I have found myself considering the …

Sorry, no postings from me this morning. Between some rather humongous personal stresses and some behind-the-scenes unpleasantness, I can't quite muster the time/energy/focus to toss anything up this morning …

I am tired today. I had a lot of work to catch up on at the office this week, and the auditors were in town again, which reminds me …

I read C.S. Lewis' book, "The Problem of Pain" again this week, and noticed something I had merely skimmed before; the relationship between humans and animals. Professor Lewis, a …

I've had a few dust-ups with David Anderson, but politics aside, he's a good guy. We've actually become pretty good friends. Well, he's been living and working in Costa …

For some reason, I tend to inspire trust in people. I apparently have this "vibe" that makes people trust me. I have two examples going on right now. My …