:think:Sometimes, When We get to a point of being incapable of being honest to the Person or People We claim We Love. We have for whatever reason allowed dishonesty to enter into Our realm of Relationships and Our Lives. Dishonesty is taking very serious risks of no matter the weight or Capacity of the Lie, and, showing We are lacking Integrity, Morals or Standards...and Placing a very high Stake of not being accepted as credible and heading in the direction of being alienated from Those whom We...

WHITE PAINTED HOUSE – haiku 315
peeling painted house
has its untold story, yet--
door number eighteen

BEYAZ BOYALI EV – haiku 315
dökülür boya
gizli kalmış öyküsü--
ev no onsekiz

ahmet aksoy

*Disclaimer: I do not have a green thumb.
<-my thumb

Yesterday was Friday. The end of a stress-filled, unusually scheduled week. I was SO glad to have it mostly behind me. Now to get home and relax. 3 miles from my home the traffic stopped. Uh-oh. Okay, it was inching along. I can do inching along if it's only 3 miles worth of inches. I was feeling smug, anticipating the moment I'd hit the turn lane and leave all the other inching motorists behind... in just a few minutes....NOOOOOO!...

It's a work in progress. And, as I write this, this particular road is about 97% complete, what with some touch-ups, signage, and final connecting road work left to be done.

I'm talking about Fort Worth's new Chisholm Trail Parkway, the downtown-to-Cleburne toll road with a parkway feel to it. Your writer decided it was time to go out and take a test drive on it. The road has some good city and country scenes along its route. It is intended to begin at Interstate 30...

The very name of this series appeals to our perception of Government. For many reasons we think of our government as being fragile and ready to cave in. Most of that is perception and not reality. Think back to 2008 when Wall Street came tumbling down and how that led to the housing industries collapse. People I knew were putting the blame on the Bush administration and thought for sure that the Obama administration would take us all into the abyss.
Looking back we can see that it was the...