Owning and using a car is a big responsibility.  A car is a useful tool for getting you places and transporting others who do not have a...

Hubby got an email the other day from someone he had never met.  She was the niece of a research scientist that he had gone to school with m...

Banging head on desk and wondering why some people cannot find a country with no government where they can go live and leave the rest of us ...

Bryan quietly slipped on his right boot.  They were laces, so they would not make the noise that his Velcro running shoes made.  He was t...

I somehow got on this dining memory streak and because the writing muse has totally gone on a long vacation deep into the heart of some bla...

I wrote a long and complaining post a few weeks ago.  I was smart to sit on it.  I had scheduled it for posting on the 20th of this month an...

Years ago when I was in my twenties and thirties I was a big American football fan. I started my interest while in college watching vario...

I think I have figured out the basic difference in conservative and liberal mindsets at the far reaches of civilization.  Most of us are san...

Our country neighborhood recently got a new restaurant...an Olive Garden.  Now if you live in the city you are thinking...yeah, big deal?  B...

I should be happy and relieved today since millions of Americans will soon be able to get the same or similar health care to mine.  Amer...

(Brief interruption of my tedious Florida travel log...you can leave and go to the bathroom.) I like to think that my love of photog...

My life is too short to worry about the views of others and the choices made by my adult children and minds that cannot be changed.  Anyw...

I listened to a program on MSNBC  (I think) that was discussing how hard it is for people to stop checking their Bl**kberries or logging int...

What does it say about us when we post colored charts for threat levels on terrorism and Canada posts colored charts for this . I decided th...

Ronnie has given all us boomers a challenge to post our ideas about the health care reform activities on the 20 th of this month. I coul...

As you are reading this I am probably on a cruise ship heading to Nassau, or perhaps on the Disney Island beach watching my grandchildren ...

1. I am very very tired of hearing how getting an ivy league education makes you an elitist. It makes you (or means your already were) ...

The media seems to be ignoring the statistics and facts on the demographics of the subprime crises perhaps because they are not sexy. But,...

My husband was able to take some time off during his business trip to visit South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii. This point is the s...

I am trying to stay out of blogging about this election because I am so passionately opinionated and concerned...but Bill has a good blog r...