A life in words

  • Haunted Harry

    Great stories have a way of making me reflect on my life, remember how it has been and think about how it is and hopefully will be. I’m here on the couch supposed to be working on my project, but instead I’m listening to my friends watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I’m…

  • Change

    Change. Things are changing. Some of these are unhappy changes, and in many ways the world seems to be falling apart. The whole mood is that we have been much more than we ever will be again. The incoming president promises change as well. The change of progress to counteract the change of decay. We…

  • A Question for my Loyal Readers

    I have a multi-part question for you guys: Do you have a Google account? If so, do you have a blog on Blogger/Blogspot? If so, in your Blogger dashboard, when you click on the “Settings” tab, is there a sub-tab called “OpenID”? If so, if you click on “Log in” at the top of my…

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves… to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection [and] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption….George Washington, Farewell Address