Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
My mother taught me that 2 wrongs don’t make a right. No wonder it doesn’t sit well with me that the Saudi’s suicide bombed the world trade towers with American passenger jets and the American response was to bomb Afghanistan (again) and then invade Iraq (using, by the way, Weapons of Mass Destruction.) Since then the current […]
Last night we watched a NFL Playoff game on TV between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots. Denver beat the Patriots 27 to 13 and we left our good friend in a state of euphoria. Just for fun, I kept track of the commercials during the last 90 minutes of the game to […]
A couple of Monday’s ago, I walked across the street with my basket of laundry and found the proprietor and an older gentleman having an animated conversation about the state of the world. A few minutes later, this retired farmer and I were the only people in the room and for lack of something better […]
In honor of Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Solstice, I’d like to share a message that has been firmly planted in my psyche by my mother: “Love is all there is.” The Beatles, pop icons from my formative years, said it this way: “Love is all you need.” Another famous version of this is, “Whatever you wish that men […]
We may think we invented Christmas but the Chinese are doing a darned good job of celebrating in the capitalist tradition. Americans and Chinese alike pour onto the street in shopping and partying over-drive during the December holidays resulting in a predictable increase in vehicular homicide. Here’s a brief account from the China Daily: Roads […]