woody's world

Ever notice how among friends insults become indicators of affection or respect? Like black people calling each other the "N" word...

NPR again. Many American spends 2 hours or more a day watching cooking programs and 30 minutes preparing, cooking,serving and cleaning up fo...

Many years I wrote this: Paleolithic (or something like that): Since the dawn of our existence a long time ago we've learned the use of...

I am getting really tired of conservatives of all stripes and some of my old friends who fit that description blaming the Obama administrati...

(the source for the somewhat modified scenario below is an NPR program on Autism) She sat with her head in her hands and said "What wou...

We were lying on our backs in a too-big bed (it was a king, we are comfortable in a double), the window AC was on (it was 90+ outside and th...

Until the next time. Did you ever begin something by thinking " this is (is going to be) the hardest thing I have ever done in my l...

On The Page, Poet Mourns Daughter's Murder : NPR Source: www.npr.org Slamming Open the Door, the debut collection of poems from Kathleen...

As I stopped by the vet the other day to pick up the dogs, a woman with her son(?) was standing in the parking lot holding a very hairy smal...

I heard a story the other day about a young girl that had been sexually abused by a relative (that's mostly who does it) for 3 years. Sh...