Sometimes I think that my friends would get tired of hearing about my stories with the grandkids, and my life with my wonderful wife Denise...so it was nice hearing from so many of you yesterday that you love hearing those stories and don't seem to tire of them. I sure appreciate that, because if instead we stuck to writing about the different stories we hear on all the different news...

   They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.  And older we grow.  The last of the WW1 vets has passed and faces change as each year passes.  The babes in arms from what only seems like last year are now marching with the Army cadets, that stroppy teenafer who was only there...

  I was ten when my father became friends with Brett, a hunter from down the street. Thursday evenings when my father would return from work, Brett would appear - a cloud of tobacco smoke encircling his head like a foggy, grey halo. The two would leave without exchanging words and I'd watch out the window as Brett's VW van chugged down the road. As the sun started to set on Sundays, the...

  "In a year and a half, when you turn 30, we're gonna have a party, but it's not gonna be a birthday party. Instead we're throwing you a "Raspywolf is still alive at the age of 30 and hasn't been killed by a mob of people he managed to piss off by messing with their heads and/or deliberately offending them for his own amusement" party!" I feel...

Over the years I have always treated this place, OD land, as my personal diary.   I have candidly expressed my deepest of emotions, my most twisted confusions, and my darkest of secrets. I have always maintained that this is my mind. I have proclaimed that this is no different to what I would have written in hardcopy, had I never transferred from pen & paper to the...

The fuck is all this shit-.."I met her on the first day of school in.."...and then that dumb as doorknobs mother daughter combo always nominating one another for Retards Choice... *pulls out comcast remote*..Not if'n I has anything to say about it. Theres a date thats been on my mind as of late. Grampers funeral. *On-Demand menu* Select date/sequence: Um...I think it was Feb...

In last Tuesday’s elections, Republicans regained governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. My right-wing friend reliably shot off an e-mail crowing that the “love fest” for Obama was over. My friend’s remark troubles me, because he’s right. Obama has been in office for eleven months and all the talk is about how he’s failed to fix the economic crisis. It...

      So if you can today stop by REDCAT, CAT CALLS,  diary and read  her latest and even more importantly leave her a note to offer your support and prayers. I can promise that one takes the time to support a friend it make you feel so much better.        I was reading Redcats’ entry (Cat calls) today and her battle with Chemo...

My name is Meg and I am Lesbian, Christian and see no conflict between my orientation and my faith. I am perhaps not what you might call an orthodox Christian and these days align myself more with Christian Spiritualism than with evangelical Christians, but I love God and believe in Him and do my best to love all his people. I am passionate about writing, and about using the words I write to...

I've recently concluded that the only worthwhile activity that a human being can engage in is smiling, and, by extension, laughing.  What's more, there is no rational reason to ever not be smiling or laughing, and that smiling and laughing are always possible. We've been misled. What's worse, we misled ourselves.  Convinced that smiling is the province of happiness, of glee, of...