Clare Consultation, LLCPosted on August 12, 2012 by Mary Clare
Election Year Politics – Hold on to your Limbic System!
If there were a word to sum up the trouble with our elections and the leaders they bring us, what would it be? Thinking back on the 100 Voices I listened to in 2009, Americans around the country offered words like immature, disappointing, ridiculous, greedy, irrelevant. Ed Kemp, III in Jackson, MS said “useless.” Then he elaborated. “Senators and congressmen ought to all be farmers. They get up in the morning. They… Read More
Posted on August 5, 2012 by Mary Clare
XXX Olympiad — Blog readership plummets
Not that the number was that sky-high to begin with – although of late there have been readers from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Israel and Brazil – even one reader from Sierra Leon. I don’t know if all of the countries represented by readers on this little blog are also represented at the Olympics. I can’t because of a lot of things. A lot of work, for starters; and then there’s the super… Read More
Posted on July 29, 2012 by Mary Clare
Mary Says, Mitt Says
My 19-year-old niece Mary is in Israel. So is Mitt Romney. Mary arrived almost 4 weeks ago to assist with rebuilding homes of Palestinian people that have been destroyed in the areas of the country historically populated by Palestinians now being displaced. Many of those lands are occupied by Jewish settlers. These are complicated issues from the standpoint of local, national and international politics. They are less complicated but more urgent and… Read More