Having lived in that area, I believe you. People forget Maryland was a slave state. There's some funky bad juju all over the area.

Scary Jeebus

I have lived in haunted houses in Maine. On more than one occasion I woke up from dreams of bring strangled or hanged. No experience in life is like that and yet it was a dream and it was scary but I KNEW it was a dream. That story scared the crap out of me.

In hospice we use Ativan for dying patients because it desolves so easily under the tongue. A nurse will tell you sometimes we dissolve meds in liquids and then put them in sweet drink for patients who are hard to medicate- patients with dementia, developmentally disabled who can be aggresive,the severely mentally…

Some of the frats are disgusting at the U of O. We lived in Eugene, my daughter went to school there. I was very protective, always picked her and her friends uo and made sure they wre safely inside when I dropped the girls off. This was about 10-14 years ago. There were sooooo many rapes and assaults. I was out early…

I drove people crazy back when women wore curlers to bed and every girl sported some make up. I started wearing loose black trousers and loose black tops when I was 16, Forty five years later it's still my go to look. Black doesn't show dirt as much and if you throw on bright boots and scarf or lots of jewelry it…

Clowns and dolls, man, they're the worst!

There are many forces older than humanity, older than faith, as old or older than the earth we trod. I have felt their presence at times and have a great deal of respect for their power over the human psyche. An open mind, a friend and a LOT of candle power helps in vanquishing them if only temporarily.

Hurrah! The Blame the Victim Posse is here! What took you so long?

Hurray! The blame the victim posse has arrived! What took you so long?

When she got damning background on some potential nominees and scooped the vetting teams her secret-ask the girlfriends of the ex wives. Brilliant.

I have been blessed to know all kinds of gourmet cooks. There are so many wonderful desserts you can make from chocolate and fruit that avoid the problem you mention. You should suggest your relaives cosider lightening the matzoh meal with nut flours which are kosher for passover.

Big Pharma is mostly to blame. They marketed Oxycontin as a drug safe to give to short term acute pain patients. The original drug had a simple coating that could be defeated (Sorry-coating made drug time released rather than immediate release) by biting or breaking the pill. So a drug tat was 40 mg 0f oxycodone that…

I say we tie a rock around nice's neck and throw it in the river.

My first thought upon reading op-eds like the ones mentioned above was,"How much of this is due to the republican push to shrink the federal workforce and outsource this stuff to their friends at Halliburton/Blackwater/KBR?

This is the Nova Scotian tartan. My family came to Nova Scotia after Culloden. I think the Brits invited us. Anyway, I like wearing this tartan because after the clans were destroyed at Culloden, a new kind of clan and family thrived in the exile of the New World.