by barry edwards, edwards communications

Almost a year later… I’m finally posting a few photos from my Italy trip with Lisa. I have a ton more of other exotic locations – but this is enough for tonight.

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Being creative in the midst of all this gloomy weather gets very challenging.

Well, that headline apparently will put everyone to sleep. Why isn’t everyone broadcasting on every blog, Facebook page and phone line to PUT AN END TO LOBBYISTS AND CAMPAIGN FUNDING? This legalized bribery is exactly why us common folk are absolutely screwed today. No one in Washington will address this until there’s complete non-tolerance for it across this country – because they’re getting their pockets lined by them. PLEASE educate people.

Bowser 2/14/97 – 2/22/11

I was asked by Marilyn’s Voice, a dog shelter that I’ve done some pro bono work for, to write a short something about my late, beloved dog, Bowser. I wrote the following:

I got Bowser from the Cleveland APL when he was about 6 weeks old. He was a wolfish mix; his litter found in an abandoned building downtown. I spent the next 8 years trying to domesticate him – to make him heel when we walked, to not hunt squirrels and cats and other such things that undomesticated animals instinctually do. I read books on this and tried to teach him so much. He seemed to understand nearly everything I said, but did his own thing his own way regardless.

Around his eighth birthday, I had the sudden realization that we were on the back end of his life and that I was going to accept him just as he was – I wasn’t going to try to train him anymore and I would enjoy each remaining day that I had with him. That day was the beginning of the most beautiful relationship that I can imagine. We both began to transform. I always had unconditional love from him, but he didn’t from me until that day.

Bowser taught me far more than I ever taught him.

He went peacefully in his sleep Tuesday, February 22, 2011. I’ll always love and miss him.

So we’re a few days into the whole time change scam and, as I do every year, I feel like going to bed at 6 pm. I don’t get it. Never did get it and never will. I’ve asked people for years why the government insists on doing this. I’ve googled the ridiculous subject, and clearly no one has a real answer for it.

Supposedly Ben Franklin introduced the idea to make better use the extra hour of daylight in the summer – moving it from morning to evening. I’m very cool with that. Leave the time there. Why move it back?

I’ve heard the argument, “Because we don’t want our kids to walk to school in the dark”. Well, I don’t know about you, but I still walked to school in the dark with the silly time change.

We’ve all heard, “Its for the farmers, so they get more use of daylight”. Seriously? Did we really add any daylight anywhere? There’s the same amount of daylight in the winter and summer regardless and the farmers will get out of bed and work with that daylight regardless of what our clocks say.

And finally… energy consumption. Right. Now, thanks to the ridiculous time change, we all have to come home from work and turn on all of our lights to see what the heck we’re doing.

Look, if we just have to screw around with the clocks, than I say we do just the opposite – have the clocks spring forward an hour in the fall so we move that extra hour of daylight to the evening, then fall back in the spring to where we currently keep our summer hours. Maybe we’ll see the wintertime suicide rates across the northern half of the country plummet as a result.