CLERGY ABUSE AND NEW YEARS: Endings and Beginnings.
I received immense response from my last few posts. The pain, anger, frustration and confusion is apparent. When we spend the last day of a year, we often like to feel a sense closure while we anticipate a new year. But I have never understood nor have I ever felt “closure.” I’m not sure what [...]
I’m As Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take This Anymore!
In the 1976 movie Network, Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a seasoned anchorman on a failing network news program, UBS, learns he will be let go in two weeks, so he goes on the air to announce his plan to commit suicide. Fittingly, the network’s ratings soar, and UBS keeps him on the air, profiting from [...]
THE DISSERTATION: The Fear of Bringing it to an End.
Christmas is drawing to an end. The Christmas tree droops. The cookies grow stale. The leftovers in the refrigerator must soon be tossed.
The presents once neatly under the tree now scatter in various pieces and parts across the living room floor.
Holiday music on Comcast Digital Cable lingers only to maintain the flagging spirit.
So now that [...]
CLERGY ABUSE AND CHRISTMAS PART III
I apologize. For the past couple days since my last post, I’ve had a bug, so I haven’t had the opportunity to stay on top of all the comments I have received.
Before posting the first piece on clergy abuse victims and Christmas, I felt a great deal of trepidation. But now I am glad that [...]
CLERGY ABUSE AND CHRISTMAS Part Two: The Humiliation of Silence
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CLERGY ABUSE VICTIMS AND CHRISTMAS EVE: The Loneliest Time of the Year.
I will post a Merry Christmas blog later. But for a Merry Christmas Eve post, I feel compelled to write a reminder that there are tens of thousands of individuals out there today who suffered at the hands of clergy abuse in not just the Catholic Church, but also in many other churches in the [...]
SANTA CLAUSE RALLY. The Stock Market is a Sucker’s Game.
Like Obama, I have the audacity to hope.
But I am losing hope in the stock market. We always wait for the so-called Santa Clause rally. On CNBC, the biggest question they have been asking for the past week is, “are we going to have the Santa Clause rally?”
We all know the aphorism, “what goes up [...]
iPOD, iTOUCH, CHRISTMAS and Infinite Music Choices
Never before has the consumer had so many choices for music.
My son wants a G3 Macintosh laptop. He’s not getting one. And he knows it, so I am going to get his next all time request, the Apple iTouch. But I’ve been cryptic with him about whether or not this gift will show up under [...]
SNOWSTORM IN CONNECTICUT– Now I’m Going Crazy! !
In my last post, I waxed poetic at the beauty of our first snowstorm, and the snowflakes made me dream nostalgic sepia toned memories.
Now the snow has just become a pain in the ass.
My son so enchanting yesterday has tracked in big, slushy footprints into the house every half an hour that I yell about [...]
SNOWSTORM ! ! Looks like a White Christmas.
We are having a terrific pre-Christmas snowstorm here in Guilford, CT!
My son just measured the accumulation out the front door. We are closing in on seven inches now at 6 pm. I cannot recall the last time there was a snowstorm like this before Christmas. There was a snowstorm on Christmas in 2002 or 2003. [...]
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Thursday, Mar 11
Mostly Cloudy
Currently: 45˚ F
Feels Like: 41˚ F
Hi: 49˚, Lo: 39˚
Tonight: 39˚
Sunset: 5:53 PM
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Friday, Mar 12
Hi: 49˚, Lo: 40˚
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