Stay Calm, We Have a White Flag
Add another quote, maybe, to the lexicon of our self-confusion: "We have met the enemy, and we went through the looking-glass anyway." This explains an awful lot, to my own satisfaction, from a run-on...
View ArticleLet's Pretend Words Still Have Meaning
When there are no major upheavals on the scene, and things are percolating along on a restful plateau, I doubt we're all paying a high degree of attention. Perhaps we've all just gotten used to being...
View ArticleThe Excellence of Less
It was a complete surprise when I got word from the Trump campaign that I had been chosen to interview its candidate. "We hate all the press," I was told upon confirming the invitation details,...
View ArticleDay Zero: Comet Strike
If our clock wasn't cleaned, it was certainly reset. That makes twice in one week. I wasn't over Falling Back yet -- now, in mid-primal scream, I am Falling Forward, imagining many of us, holding our...
View ArticleDay One: Cratered Aftermath
Welcome back to Group -- please grab a little something from the food-and-drink snack cart, and we can get started... As you know, positioned here, as we are, on the lip of the smoking impact-crater of...
View ArticleDay Two: Triage Tango
Another election. Another Veterans Day. Another round of triage. Yes, it's a new day. Welcome to Group. Might be nice to start out this session by reminding everyone that those five Kubler-Ross...
View ArticleDay Three: 'Very Unfair'
Yes, I know: I keep waking up in TrumpWorld, too. The thought clicks into place about two seconds after my eyes open and consciousness dawns. Dazed and confused. Then, the cringing and wincing...
View ArticleDay Four: Pandora's Clubhouse
Thanks for coming by later in the day today than we've been meeting lately. I'm sure that you, like me, just wanted to linger under the warm blankets until, oh, say -- the mid-terms. I don't blame...
View ArticleSHUT. IT. DOWN.
There's keeping an open and hopeful mindset, and there's ignoring the bus and truck which have leapt the curb and are coming straight at you. Last week's shocked and jittery, anxious-for-good-reason,...
View ArticleThe New Abnormal
We pretty much imagined life would change the minute we had seen Orange-Head's numbers tallying on the Electoral College board. Not long after, we saw the popular vote's run-up, noted the disconnect...
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