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José José is not a poster person. He's not a starving doe eyed child. He isn't a struggling single mother. He isn't bravely fighting cancer. He hasn't risen to national ...

Loose Associations $ José (21June2009): not poster material $ feeding at the public trough (12April2009): apparently, we're bottom feeders $ the screen ...

the public trough I recently attended a rally protesting cuts to health care for the mentally ill here in Sacramento. The Sacramento Bee covered the rally, and one ...

Elizabeth Keating In 1988 I closed my information technology consulting practice and embarked on a thirteen year quest to become a physician. It was a journey filled ...

From: ron #64; .net Date: 11November2008 09:07:43 PST To: spamsieve #64; .com Subject: SpamSieve saved my life Well, not really, but I thought ...

The Screen Time Conspiracyand other #8220;clinical guidelines #8221; woes I recently received a communiqu from a physician asserting that the #8220;AAP American ...

All Compassion is Local I recently dipped a toe into the murky waters of politics. It's not my gift. Sacramento County wants to eliminate funding to the backbone of ...

The Science Wizard We just threw a sixth birthday party for Matthew. He wanted a Harry Potter theme, and I thought it would be fun to have a magician. I did a web ...

Let 'em Fail! Imagine that a passenger liner, far out at sea, strikes an iceberg. The owners of the ship, with the government's blessing, had removed the lifeboats ...

Desert Heart HIKING GOLDEN BROWN HILLS, sun dazzling, dry breeze hot I kneel before a great flat stone and, struck from behind I am surprised to find my heart on ...

profound changes My car died a dramatic death last Saturday. I was driving on a beautiful spring day with the top down. Elizabeth was in the passenger seat. We were ...

To Blog or Not To Blog Back in the early 1990's when the World Wide Web was new, before there were page spinners and WYSIWYG HTML editors and cascading style sheets ...

Second Night Spaces Our second night together In not too many years Our love, so long enduring, So chaste and pure unless you count The thousand or so lascivious thoughts ...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold ...

scarlet with my neighbors #8217; long since bare I cling to turnéd leaves rust and brown, sere and crisp, yet not surrendered to the ground where others #8217; have ...

longer days RonRisley 12 Apr 2008

from seed to fruit WHEN YOU PLANT a tree, it is with the expectation that it will grow But O! so long from seed to fruit: the tender shoot That first sees sun by foot ...

The Trouble with Time Machine I guess it's the 21st century equivalent to getting a lump of coal in my stocking. I don't know which of my many moral failures led to ...

thanks be bicycles breathing cheap airfares clean water co workers comfortable shoes Con Dad electricity Elizabeth financial security fresh food health hot showers ...

Car Trouble My car has this cool feature: you can simultaneously close or open all the windows from outside the car by holding the key in the lock or unlock ...

me, simpsonized I've been simpsonized:

automation As I'm typing this: I have a load of clothes being washed in my washing machine. Another load of clothes is being dried in an automated dryer ...

Compact Fluorescent Lights We've all heard the statistics: if every person in the US would replace their incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent (CF) bulbs ...

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I Have Time I HAVE TIME to sleep a few hours each night, Time to play two year old and five year old games, Time to earn a living, attend church, support my communities ...

spring awaiting RonRisley 10 Mar 2007

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Home Improvement This house has needed a new kitchen since about 1970. That's when the previous owners added on to the kitchen by enclosing the front porch, but never ...

The Walk ON THE WALK I am alone. The child wrapped around my belly Has simple needs, satisfied for now. The phone at my belt, silent. Trees, sky, pavement, air lack ...

It is not my place; it was his. I honor memory. Pretzels that distracted while pizza cooled are gone, churros now. The rest remains: lines where I held him 'til arms ...

port wine like a glass of port wine born with a kiss of sun and a spray of slightly salty breeze plucked away, crushed, strengthened in a musty stew filtered, clarified ...

Tea, Daddy? A couple of months or so ago I was feeling sick. Very sick. I was taking care of three year old Matthew and was trying to keep up with him despite the ...

Metering Trees Crews are busy all around Sacramento County, digging and plumbing, installing water meters. Like many transplants from elsewhere in California, where ...

a paean to loneliness where it really happens. craving distraction. wishing for a word, a touch. so desperate that even a television voice would be welcome. but ...

Doctor in the House? Matthew and I went to the Sacramento Zoo this morning. We were waiting at the gate to have our membership card checked while the gentleman at ...

Creek Adventure Sacramento County is flat. Really flat. There are many trees, which is a Very Good Thing , but thick trees in such a flat land means that you seldom ...

A Day in the Life 05:00 Matthew wakes up, wanders around the house a bit, crawls into bed with me. He thrashes around for 10 15 minutes, then says "I want to get ...

Flare From the light of dreams to morning's gloom, Illuminated by a son, next darkened by a cloud. A sun filled ride to a light, supportive room Then late and lost ...

After the Show All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find... if they ever were mine. Shawn Colvin I sang in the mixed chorus at my high school ...

On My Rocker It's back! After fourteen months at the restorer, I finally have my rocking chair again. A year ago February I sat rocking Matthew on my lap when the ...

More Prose $ in recognition of single parents (07February2005): some site news and a tip of the virtual hat to people who raise kids on their own $ Elizabeth ...

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Wealth and Privilege I have been in a major funk, feeling sorry for myself. I don't imagine it's pretty, but my friends have been supportive nonetheless. One particularly ...

Tolerance, Intolerance, and Disingenuity What happens when tolerance meets intolerance? Won't intolerance always prevail? Consider a mythical, isolated island nation ...

Tincture of Time I simultaneously trained in both medicine and psychiatry. That road has frequently landed me in a situation where I will be in a general medical clinic ...

Abandoned! It was just the sort of situation that the expression “too good to be true” must have been created for. She had said that she would meet me here, and after ...

Legitimate Claims Ancestry allows us to participate in a larger world, to experience vicariously the greener pastures of other lives, the exotic romance of far–away ...

Partners in Learning Few would argue against the statement that America’s educational institutions are in a sorry state. In his essay “The High Cost of Ignorance ...

Truth The quest for truth: is it a noble, virtuous undertaking, or an exercise in futility? Is it something of concern to every thinking individual, or a colossal ...