In "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" there's a song which ends with the line "any dream will do." But if the current campaign has proved anything, it's proved that that is not true. It is increasingly hard for me to believe that anyone who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries for any reason other than gender-ONLY would even consider voting for the McCain Palin ticket. In addition, I keep asking myself if I'm missing something in the news... but where is the Clintons' and Clinton supporters' high profile, every day on-the-front-lines screaming, cheering support for Obama and Biden?? (more...)

But as summer winds down and children return to school, the sedentary nature of much of modern life becomes newly emphasized. Unfortunately, we sometimes need to be reminded to keep active and fit, …

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Change I Can Be Livin' In; The Republicans Can Become Nice...or even Just Honest or Civil. When I notice myself starting to feel helpless and afraid in the face of mob meanness and nastiness, I, in the good old American tradition, speak out before my fear deepens my sense of powerlessness. I've always loved the open political process of our country, even though it has meant, for years, having to listen to people who seem to have been born and raised on a different planet than I was...in terms of their politics, sensibilities and beliefs. But sitting watching the mob nastiness, the jingoist chanting and the sarcastic and mean comments of the Republican speakers at last night's convention, I was appalled and honestly, frightened. (more...)