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It has been quite a long day around here. Really a long few days. My family spent the weekend sick. My son, husband, and I all got some stomach bug and my daughter is cutting some more teeth. I have been ready to pull out my hair with all the crying and whining going on around here. Everything has managed to put me behind on school, also, so now I am trying to catch back up from the time spent taking care of everyone. To say the least I have a royal headache and am just feeling mad at the ...

There is a certain show (I won't mention its name; it gets enough undeserved attention) haunting the radio airwaves. It purports to analyze and discuss various topics that are either strange or preternatural and, in the end, remain unsolved and unexplained. From UFOs to Bigfoot, to Doomsday scenarios to government conspiracies, this show features them all. The only problem with this "top-rated" journey into the unknown is that it's almost totally ridiculous and absurd. What it purports ...

It's not mine though, not anymore, it used to be, but it changed, and now all it can think about is Apple pie and raindrops falling on an empty street where for some reason an apple pie is eating a bird. For some reason that image makes me think of a rainy street in Detroit, but not the earth Detroit, the Detroit from outer space, with spaceships flying everywhere, some docking, some leaving, some performing dangerous stunts while being pursuit by the mounted police, who like to use space horses. ...

In 1982 maybe 1983 I was in my final glory days as far as my Air Force career went assigned as Chief, Administration, 905th Air Refueling Squadron (SAC), Grand Forks AFB ND. For the record I much preferred Orderly Room in the title but wiser heads prevailed. Administration carried more panache and promotion boards would perk up more during reviews. This never concerned me greatly--being a lazy Calvinist I always figured God put me where He wanted me and using my 'free' will to run interference ...

Credit to Assemblage 23 for giving me the title of this blog. I could only think of naming it "Status" or "Good and Bad", neither of which appealed to me.

Now, why a Madman's Dream you ask? See here:

"Good Things that have happened to me this Week" also known also "I feel like a child cowering from daily beatings from her parent (God) and all of a sudden he stops beating her and is nice, and I am afraid to come out of my black corner ...