February 28 Keywords

Today, even after some potentially paid Real Writing, I've found the energy to hit the e-mail...huzzah! Links in this one include a contest in which other writers could win folding money. And some Bad Poetry you can sing to the tune of "Jingle Bells"...and some thoughts about suicide! (No, not as an immediate option for myself, either.)

Amnesty International
Sara Beltran Hernandez
El Salvador
asylum laws
immigration laws
international activism
Fernando Alonso
El Arbol de los sueños (main Amazon book link)
writing project
translation project
poems about cows
news items about cows
Bad Poetry
Ozarque
Dan Lewis

Chuck Wendig

Stephen King

flag burning

Koran burning

right to be stupid

importance of cash

hazards of non-cash economy

The Handmaid's Tale

Alice Walker (the link goes to the feel-good sequel to her best-known novel)

Los Angeles, California

events in California

events in Arizona

Jewish sermon

Purim

Daniel 7:25
Mary and John McDougall

Grandma Bonnie Peters

aging and "real" retirement

phenology

ornamental Prunus

phoebe

woodpecker

daffodils

vincas

crocus

hummingbirds

photo of hummingbird standing still

+Beth Ann Chiles 

Milo Yiannopoulos 

race baiting

racist Tea Parties, if there are any, which I doubt

Ted Cruz

Ben Carson

+Lloyd Marcus 

child sex trafficking

Child Protective Services

Stieg Larsson

sexually abused teenagers

Waco disaster of 1993

Scott Adams 

Bill Nye 

+Andria Perry 

slipcases for magazines

assisted suicide

George Peters

Jack Kevorkian

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Anne Lamott

Tegretol and suicidal ideation

writing contest

Falun Gong

religious persecution

China

photos of good-looking seniors