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Category Archives: Politics

Gas Tank Gimmicks

A young woman relaxing, reading on the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Fall, MA
 
With all the talk and battling policies in the presidential campaign, nobody is willing to tell the American people the one thing they can do to lower the cost of gasoline.  Drive less.
Nobody wants to say it because they don’t really want [...]

Thinking Out Loud

 
Twin Tulips, Spring 2005 
I find myself quite excited about the voting taking place today in Ohio and Texas.  In a New York Times article posted on their website today, I read a quote from Hillary Clinton.  In defense, ahead of time, of going on beyond today’s elections (in case she doesn’t win) she said, “We’re just [...]

Do We Care? I think we do.

 
Turners Falls Marching Band in Memorial Day parade 2007  
This has been bugging me for a long time so I thought today was as good a day as any to get into it. According to Bob Schieffer, reporting on Face the Nation this morning, there have been almost 4000 American soldiers killed and over 90 [...]

Looking through the fog

 
The air was warm yesterday, looking strange and  mysterious as mist coming off the snow created a kind of fog that wouldn’t clear even in midday.  It stayed through the rain in late afternoon and remained to day’s end as seen in the photograph above.
The fog also drifted into the corners of the mind as [...]