Archive for November, 2009

TEMPTING FATE: I’m thankful for my problems by Jean Snow VanOrden

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This past week I’ve been posting “I’m Thankful for” messages on my facebook and twitter accounts.   Given how fortunate I am,  it seems appropriate to proclaim my gratitude often and publicly.   Here in Alaska as the dark descends and the cold deepens I am very grateful for my cozy home.  Grateful for warm boots, a [...]

GUILT TRIP: moralizing arguments about healthcare reform getting you down?

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

For a well reasoned analysis of why Congress’s current rush towards government take over of our health care system is a bad economic move and loaded with deception,  follow this link to an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal by Robert J. Samuelson:
“The campaign to pass Obama’s health-care plan has assumed a false, though [...]

THANK YOU by Amara Pearl VanOrden: A Prologue to the Thanksgiving Season

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Thank you music
Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists
All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past
Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo…
Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle….
Thank you Sparta and Athens
The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae
Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein
Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet
Thank you Emily Dickinson
Thank you Jane Austen
Thank [...]