Month: July 2025

Writer’s Workshop — nobody wants to talk about it…

chart image link It’s a battle of organized money vs. organized people.–Zohran Mamdani I heard a term the other day for the first time: Corporate Democrat. It was defined as a Democrat that serves the corporations that fund their campaigns rather than their constituencies. I think back to the 2016 Presidential election and Bernie Sanders,…

Read More

Friday Favorite Feature 44 — Doyle Bramhall II playlist

You’ve heard me mention Doyle Bramhall II a time or 2.  Over the break I decided to create a Spotify playlist of my favorite songs from the albums I have of his.  I played this playlist MANY times since creating it and it is solid.  Please give his music a listen and let me know…

Read More

#MMB 2025– July — “Black Day in July,” by Gordon Lightfoot

[I wrote the song] as a newspaper man would write an article.— Gordon Lightfoot, about “Black Day in July”   Gordon Lightfoot remains one of my most beloved love song writers/balladeers, but he’s just as phenomenal at chronicling impactful bits of human history.  Most everybody knows his song, “Edmund Fitzgerald.”  He’s written about colonizing nature’s…

Read More

#FF — First Impressions

 PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart First Impressions First look at my new post relieved me with its Queen Anne style, painted in coordinating original shades of blues and creams; red begonia garden with fragrant-blossomed tree; framed by white picket fence. After my previous post at dilapidated Windrush, with master’s grasping hands and gaslighting, I felt…

Read More

Mid-June Miss Toad

Mid-June, while doing a plant check around the yard, I found Miss Toad hunkered down amongst the new prickly pear cacti.  She stayed there for a number of days, but now she is gone.  I think she chose a dangerous but safe place to rest.  I wonder where she is now? soft and warty cool…

Read More