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Good evening, writers! I hope you’re doing well. We had snow here and our first real cold weather. I am curled up under a cozy blanket. I’m not really sure what to write about, but it has put me in mind of both the season, meaning the holidays, and the...

Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...

Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...

The Tlingit are an Alaska Native people whose aboriginal homelands stretched along the Pacific coast for more than 400 miles. The Tlingit were 18 distinct and autonomous groups. Each group felt that ...

This was a better day for us.� The post op check with his GP went well.� He worked in the garden in the afternoon and I did a door prize DIY after meeting with Margie.� She has taken over the game ...

I’m having some arm pain from bad ergonomic choices, so open thread tonight. Rumors that�I developed tendonitis from stripping gold off the White House and replacing it with painted tinfoil, are ...

The Trump administration is going after a Venezuelan social media influencer as tensions with the South American country reach a boiling point. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced ...

Good day, Peeps. How’s December treating you? Are your pets doing okay? A gentle reminder of how we do things: � Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries,

For todayâs music therapy, some simply beautiful poetry and compositions for contemplating the night sky, nature, and inward peace, for all religions, pagans, agnostics, and atheists: 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

This December is shaping up to be a really busy one for me. Tonight and next Tuesday, I am attending two hockey games. Weeknight games are rare for me now that my sister switched to a school in the ...

This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ...

Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...

A gentle reminder of how we do things:   🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your fur kids!  If you have ...