If you want to drop me a line, please feel free to do so at teresa.hamilton.koch@gmail.com.
I check my e-mail every day (unless I’m on sick or on vacation), so I should get your message in close to real time – I do try to answer all of my e-mail in a timely manner.
I’d love to hear from you!
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” – Lord Melbourne
“We voted for these people. We should be allowed to taser them.” – Mike
“If you’re standing around talking about doing away with fossil fuels while pointing at an electric vehicle that’s about 70% synthetic materials, you’ve already failed an IQ test you didn’t even know you were taking.”
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
“They’re not ignorant. They’ll tell you all about what they know.”
“You guys just don’t spend enough time giving yourself cool but limited super-powers. This is the internet.” – laura w.
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods” – Albert Einstein
“They can pass a law to say anything, but reality gets to bat last.”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” – D.H. Lawrence
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine
“God doesn’t call the equipped – he equips those he calls.” – Barbara Curtis
Always remember: Law is about arguing one fact that helps your argument and ignoring the ten facts that disprove it.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument – William McAdoo
“Hand-written notes in cursive writing are still the finest personal way of saying thank you. The people who send those after interviews are the ones who get the jobs.”
The Fat Lady Has Sung
“Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.” – Edward O. Wilson
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1742
Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured…but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” – Thomas Sowell
“Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron’s right to be that utterly and completely wrong.” – Dennis Miller
When Lawbreakers are in charge of the Law, we no longer have a Republic.
Funny. They complain about racism while demanding it.
“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” – Saul Bellow
“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
“It is not ours to restore the power of the Constitution. It is ours to show them the wrath of America without the protections the Constitution offers them. Let them restore it to find refuge from us.” – TL Davis
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I’m a fan. Keep it up. What are you really about? You’re too good to be just an occasional blogger.
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I really am just a stay-at-home mom who blogs occasionally whenever a subject strikes my fancy – nobody special (I’d do this in my pajamas if I didn’t think that my family would decide it was time to send “Mom” to a home for middle-aged slackers…..)
Thanks for the kind words – they mean a lot!
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Teresa; …So here I am just trolling around Ace of Spades and who do I find but my ab-so-lute-ly favorite ‘amateur author’. You know me in another life and a recently deceased time as “fun with knives” at RS [wordpress] R I P.
Why in the name in all that is holy did you not advert. this site to me/us? You’re good at noodgeing and I missed your diaries . I noted you posted at the ‘new improved R S’, but just as quick you went “Poof “.
I do not Twit nor F B but I like it that way as I have enough trouble with Digital Fixation and need no further help.
Am signing up for your blasts and look forward to them.
Groucho used to say: “Why would I want to join a club that would have a guy ‘ like me’ as a member?”
“Why Indeed”, says I……..I am kinda’ still waiting for your “Novel Announcement”.
You’re in a heap-o-trouble now……..
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Well, howdy, pardner!
RedState and my Disqus account don’t like each other (I think the fault lies with Disqus, not RS, but RS won’t return my e-mails).
You may find yourself quite disappointed with my posts here – most of them aren’t political. And I DID “advertise” this site in my RS posts – this was the “Cross-posted” link for all of my writing.
Don’t know if I’ll ever get around to a novel or not – I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis 2 years ago, and it’s really starting to sap my energy these days. Fortunately, it’s not painful or fatal, but it takes its toll on a person’s time and energy.
It’s a little too soon after the election for me to get my ornery on – I’m still licking my wounds and hiding under my rock….
Glad to have you here – I’ve been missing you!
Come December, I’ll be reprising my “25 Days of Christmas” posts – all of my favorite Christmas tunes in 25 daily packages.
Not much in the way of thoughtful commentary, but I had a lot of fun putting them together last year.
Look forward to hearing from you!
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Replying, in order:
1) R S has gotten too sterile/removed? for my taste, but the links they now provide are just too handy to ignore. A Of S was linked through them, so Door closing /Window opening has got to be in there somewhere.
2) Teresa, you could never in a Google-Plex Years Disappoint me. When I need a smile, I think back to your diary about going to the movies {Brave ?} with your daughters and hubby and it does ‘get a bit brighter’. It is ‘what’ you do and your style that makes it/you a hoot and have no doubts you are surely that. {As for any other positives, you’ll just have to wait. This is Me, being a trifle mysterious}
3) Hits me with a club on your M G condition. Lost my Mom on 9/12/2012 and I am still ‘wobbly’ over it. Descending dementia and complications ,with a side of hospice really sucked, iffin’ I can be so bold. Cures for M G ? Therapies?
Suggestion: How about a series of posts and edited as a collection?
** “Reflections from TIFWT ** “, or some such…? The book would then, write itself.
4) Re: Elections. Turning to/advocating Galting/Shrugging to any and all that will listen. Starting with churches as my Sis-in-law’s pastor has a network of Same and will at least hear me out.
To wit: Galting/Shrugging is non-participation in any Corp. or Org. that leans left. It probably means me setting up a site and it is making my wife really anxious as she sees this as job-threatening to her. Appealing to various news sites to start something up.
See:PJM and breitbart.com
As far as Barry, I sometimes think group madness is taking over. the past two weeks do nothing to stop this personal feeling of foreboding
5) I’ll consider it ‘a present’, of sorts, if you do that 25 songs deal. Taking suggestions or is it set in stone?
6) Here’s to you, Teresa. You might be one of many, but you’re one in a million to your’s truly. HOOO-RAAHHH!!!!
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Oh, golly-gee-willikers – you’re making me blush! I appreciate your kind words. (Mysterious, huh? Hmmm…..)
So sorry to hear about the loss of your mom – “wobbly” is a normal state right now. You and your family will be in my prayers.
As far as “cures” for MG, it’s more a matter of managing the “decline” – as I said, it’s not painful or fatal; I “get” to be lazy now. (Which isn’t as much fun as one might think…. 😛 )
I may have some posts here and there about the MG – I can’t remember if I tagged them or not; I’m still fairly new to this blogging stuff.
As far as “going Galt” – just finished re-reading “Atlas Shrugged” last week (I first read her stuff 35 years ago; actually did my HS Senior research paper on the works of Ayn Rand – yeah, I was a weird kid…..). Right now, I’m at the point that my “give-a-damn” is busted. All those people in NY/NJ who got hit with Hurricane Sandy? The way I see it, they voted for 4 more years of this administration, they can damn well wait for FEMA to “fix it” for them – I already “contributed” my “fair share” in taxes to pay for FEMA’s salary/budget.
I used to be a very charitable person, and I still will be – to the organizations that I choose. I can’t do anything to keep the government from forcibly extracting taxes from us, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to lift a finger to help anyone who – by their tacit approval of soft socialism – thinks that I “owe” them more of my time/money. And my husband is done with working overtime – the government already gets over 33% of every OT dollar that he makes. We’ll just get by with less. Gonna be kinda hard for the takers to get more money if there isn’t any being made…..
As for the Christmas songs, I think I managed to pull together more than 100 songs/clips last year – each day had a “theme”, which made it easier for me to narrow down my list. If you think of any that I haven’t covered, just drop me a line in the comments section of that day’s post!
Here’s to YOU, “Uncle Kevvie” – you make me smile! 😛
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Here’s a couple of posts I did that deal with life with MG:
This is from 18 months ago – I was having a really bad day:
https://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/because-i-havent-had-a-pity-party-in-a-while/
This was a year ago – I was finally starting to make peace with my new “reality”:
https://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/handing-over-the-reins/
Some days, you just have to find humor in it all:
https://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/well-thats-a-relief/
And this was back in July of this year – I’m a “seasoned pro” now:
https://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/how-do-you-cope-learning-to-count-my-blessings/
Actually, that may be all of the posts that I’ve done that deal with MG….. 😛
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