Peony Moss: February 2006 Archives

Putting it all in perspective

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Hambet has been on a crime spree lately, and I have been stalking around muttering about how it's a miracle you haven't seen me on the eleven o'clock news yet, or how it's a miracle that he made it to his fifth birthday (which was on February 22.)

How easy it is to forget. How easy it is to take things for granted -- God forgive me, to take even a child for granted. Hambet was a miracle baby. He arrived after four years of anguished prayer on February 22, 2001. He turned five on February 22, 2006.

February 22, 2006 was the same day that Elena entered eternal life. She would have been seven this Friday. Pray for us, little Elena.

Handyma'am 911

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Preschoolers, facial tissue, and toilets are not a good combination. Can anyone give me some good advice on the gentle art of the closet snake?

Maryland's dirty old man

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William Donald Schaefer: the man, the pol, the legend. Or something like that. Anyway, he's been in some kind of elected office somewhere in Maryland since Mencken's day, and he's in the soup again:

ANNAPOLIS // Comptroller William Donald Schaefer was unapologetic Wednesday after making suggestive comments to a young female aide to the governor during a meeting of the state Board of Public Works.

The incident sent some jaws dropping and drew laughter from others in the crowd of more than 100 state officials, lobbyists, journalists and business leaders attending the session.

Responding to Schaefer's request for tea, the woman, an executive assistant in Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s front office, set down a thermal mug in front of the comptroller. Schaefer, 84, watched her walk away, then beckoned for her to return. When she obliged, he told her, "Walk again," staring after her as she left a ceremonial conference room at the State House.

Schaefer defended the comment in a profanity-laced rant at reporters after the meeting.

"That's so goddamn dumb, I can't believe it," Schaefer said when asked about the appropriateness of his remark. "She's a pretty little girl."


So: How should this be handled?

Schaefer's one of those people most charitably described as "colorful", and I bet that if he tries to hide at all it's going to be behind his age.

Sorry, I don't buy it. You don't get to be rude just because you're old.

I don't think this is something that should be laughed off. But at the same time I don't think the contemporary lawsuit and sensitivity training is the right choice either.

To my way of thinking, if Schaefer wants to act as he thinks he remembers men acting "back in the day," then let him face up to the "back in the day" consequences. I'm picturing something involving a father, a fiance or older brother, and a shotgun. But the guy's 84, and then there's those pesky battery laws.

A pity that more of the men in the room didn't rise to the occasion and give the old goat the withering look he deserved.

Truly this calls for the wisdom of Solomon.

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Four Jobs
1.Clerk in a craft store
2.Clerk and salad-bar tender in a grocery store deli
3.Office Temp
4.Registered Nurse

Four Movies I Would Watch Over and Over:

1.Persuasion
2.The Incredibles
3.Tampopo
4.Monsters, Inc

Four Places I Have Lived:
1. Durbin, North Dakota
2. Tacoma, Washington
3. San Antonio, Texas
4. Baltimore, Maryland

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch:
1. House
2. American Idol
3. Masterpiece Theater reruns from Netflix
4. America's Test Kitchen

Websites I visit daily:

1. The Bleat
2. Amy Welborn
3. Washingtonpost.com, to read Rex Morgan and For Better and For Worse
4. my bank

Fav Four Foods
1. Cheese
2. Bread
3. Chocolate
4. Coffee

Four Places I Would Rather Be:
1. My computer, if I were alone
2. my scrapbooking table, if I were alone
3. A really good used bookstore, if I were by myself
4. the Crypt Chapel of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, if I arrived alone.

Four People I Am Tagging:

Four people who have started reading this blog in the last year.


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