JESSIE'S VEGAS

I awoke this AM and read my post from yesterday. I was horrified seeing so many grammatical errors and such! I decided I would just have to delete the thing or edit it for my English major comrades comfort. Something changed my mind, however, and I am forever glad. Just as perhaps Picasso created "free" expression in the art world, I am going freely expressive in the world of written prose. If you see a mistake, maybe it is there on purpose...leave it be. Just as I have learned to have a messy house, accept that my kids have learning disabilities, and that these wrinkles on my face are not going away, I am branching out into this. The fear of making grammatical errors has kept from writing in the past so...I am just letting that go and writing focusing on emotion instead of technicality . So there. Yesterday I returned from work after a two week vacation. I was all thumbs! I had twin babies again(cool)! But after the delivery I banded the second babecakes the wr...

Christmas was the favorite holiday of my youth. The favorite holiday of my grown-up years is Easter. While Christmas welcomes Christ into the world, Easter gives meaning to the world. Easter is like the climatic event of a well-written play, Christmas being the introductory few minutes.  What would a plot or story be where the hero is in conflict forever, or worse, yet,a story with an anti-climatic ending juxtaposed sharply after a life-time of turmoil? We have seen stories such as these where the poor soul is left to do the same heart-wrenching task over and over with no progress or end in site. I recall a horrible scene from The latest "Pirates of The Carribean XXI" which sequel???? Only my kids know this...Anyhow, Jack Sparrow is in an alter reality performing the same task over and over and seeing himself in different identities. It was considered a type of "hell" dimension and just the state the world would have been in if Easter had never arrived. My...