Money is always a hot topic….particularly recently with so many people watching their savings and 401k’s disappearing.

But the idea of having money and the idea of being wealthy are often confused.  Money is not wealth.

Wealth is what you have when all the money is taken away.  Think about it.

The expression, … read more »

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all posible worlds.

The pessimist fears this is true.

                                                           James Branch Cabell(1879-1958)

A NEW WAY TO DO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING certainly sounds promising doesn’t it?  Not only is that the name of a great, regular radio show, created and hosted by Elese Coit on Contact Talk Radio…….but also, Screams of Consciousness is the sponsor.

Join Elese and me, today,  as we talk about…. “Making … read more »

One of the best things about a walk in the woods is to be surrounded by the utter cacaphony of nature.  

Really, when you think about it, it’s a mess in there.  Trees falling every which way, vines and thorns running in all directions, leaves heaped in erratic piles, little tufts of … read more »

One of the best things about using the internet is the ability to tell it like it is, expletives and all.

I first heard about “The Itty-Bitty-Shitty-Committee” from my friend, Corinne—-she nailed it with a name—for all that insidious and perpetual, massively self-critical head clatter. By naming this cacaphony, I think … read more »