January | 2015 | Beth Byrnes

Snofu

Posted on January 30, 2015 33 Comments

Have I mentioned my distress at what I refer to as the ‘bumpkinification’ of America? I will explain in a minute. But, I am just as disgusted with our wimpification too. So, before I get going, let’s take a look back at this week before zeroing in on this post. Rewind In a word, this […]

Maiered

Posted on January 22, 2015 13 Comments

This week, as I mentioned in my last post, I want to talk about a topic that has interested me for the past year so I will be turning to it a bit farther down. But, it also dawned on me that I might want to segment or further organize these posts to enable people […]

As the world churns

Posted on January 8, 2015 40 Comments

Am I to take any message from the way 2015 has begun? I sure hope not. After a tumultuous Christmas that left me in a quandary as to why the holidays simply cannot go smoothly, when they are my favorite time of year in every way, the first week of the new year has only deepened […]

Super Mario

Posted on January 2, 2015 11 Comments

This is an unusual way to launch 2015 but as I have said, I plan to write about whatever pops up each week and this struck me as important. For one thing, Mario Cuomo was the governor of my home state, New York, and for another he is the kind of progressive that I aspire […]