tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-16966 2013-03-08T11:25:33-05:00 Beauty in unexpected places TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017d419c33f7970c 2013-03-08T11:25:33-05:00 2013-03-08T15:07:58-05:00

"My Tea Party cup runneth over," we twittered Mark Tapscott this morning in appreciation of his bracing filibuster post "Is Rand Paul America's William Wallace or Robert the Bruce?" wherein the DC Examiner columnist compares the generational struggle between Young...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017ee6936731970d 2012-12-23T19:54:21-05:00 2012-12-23T20:15:33-05:00

The kitteh was nestled all snug and well fed … While visions of ornaments danced in her head.

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017c33432d8b970b 2012-11-09T13:24:32-05:00 2012-11-11T10:51:31-05:00

"Stephen Colbert sent me an email, and Stephen Colbert is the young person's Oprah," the sophomorically witty young Obama voter above right — signalling membership in the tribe of cool! — answered The Blaze reporter Benny Johnson's question "What issues...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20177445ce7fa970d 2012-08-27T08:50:08-04:00 2012-08-27T22:50:33-04:00

The view across the studio in the early morning light as Haley Barbour disarmed the ever loaded-for-bear Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe, the daybreak show that — like an accident just up ahead on the highway — you can't not...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2016768dee2ce970b 2012-07-28T18:15:20-04:00 2012-08-03T09:15:22-04:00

"Our program is tailored for the U.S. television audience. It’s a credit to [London Olympics opening ceremony producer] Danny Boyle that it required so little editing,” an NBC Sports spokesperson smarmily responded to critics of the network's cutting out —...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017742905708970d 2012-06-20T15:21:43-04:00 2012-10-10T21:06:52-04:00

"A horse got me out of bed ... and living life," Ann Romney told the Ocala Star-Banner recently, referring to how horseback riding, and specifically the art of dressage, has helped her overcome some of the debilitating symptoms of MS....

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201630644066c970d 2012-06-08T18:46:05-04:00 2012-06-09T15:41:47-04:00

"Pure garbage," says Tuck, retilling the source of the exquisite, deep, dark soil he uses for planting, repotting and mulching our Chelsea Gardens (above). Fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, grass clippings and dry autumn leaves from the yard....

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20168ebc4e19d970c 2012-05-24T22:34:05-04:00 2012-05-27T09:50:09-04:00

"Cello," part of "Chamber Orchestra" series of concert-instrument interiors by Studio Mierswa-Kluska, featured in the Boston Society of Architects' Architecture Boston. "There's diversity at Harvard? Where are the conservatives?" asks a skeptical bflat879 in the comments of Harvard graduating economics...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2016304ff49d1970d 2012-05-01T13:31:00-04:00 2012-05-01T18:06:40-04:00

"Actually, Mitt is a very funny guy," a warm and engaging Ann Romney told "E.T" host Nancy O'Dell the other night, explaining "He doesn't comb his hair when we're, you know, not going places. It's like all over the place...

Sissy Willis tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2016303422e81970d 2012-03-25T11:30:08-04:00 2012-03-25T21:57:02-04:00

"Arrangement in Gray and Black Fur," popularly known as "Little Kitteh" by Sissy Willis. Digital image. Click here for full size. "Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1," popularly known as "Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler. Oil on canvas,...

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