early morning muse
Nov 30 2008
I’ve been goofing around for the last four days and realize now that if I don’t get back to business, I may find it hard to focus on anything but goofing off for the next month. Since Christmas will be arriving a week early for us this year, I need all the time I [...]
Nov 20 2008
Red and blue comprise two-thirds of the American flag — the symbol of our country. Without them, only surrender remains.
Nov 17 2008
Having received two similar questions via email last week, it seems useful to make further note about Lyrica and Cymbalta. Both are currently the only two medications FDA-approved for the treatment of Fibromyalgia. But said approval doesn’t make either of them the end-all be-all cure for us. Just as my current NP [...]
Nov 12 2008
I’ve often longed for a simple way to create my own rubber stamps. There’s always Linocut, and large pink erasers, but I haven’t mastered the thin-cut line yet (as is evidenced by the “scars” in the hand-carved shamrock in the lower left of image), and would like, at times, to have an image [...]
Nov 12 2008
Today I transition from trying Provigil for two weeks to taking it every morning indefinitely. It passed the test. Not with flying colors, but certainly well enough to facilitate a seven-hour trip to Roanoke on Monday, leave me with energy when I got home, and not feeling completely annihilated the following day. [...]
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier — who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag — who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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