Way back "when" Robert Downy, Jr. had a serious problem with addictions. It appeared that he was self-destructive and spent much time between making movies getting into serious trouble, even spending time in prison.I, for one, am so very pleased he did whatever it was he did to become the actor he is, today. I e

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Have you noticed that when you criticize a television show, even when it is your admittedly favorite one, no one says (or writes) to you, "Why don't you take up acting if you think you can do it better?" or "If you think you can do a better job, why don't you try coming up with a better script?"

Sigh, sob, sigh, sob. ...Sob.The Ducks lost and ... we have the same governor. The sky reflects my heart.Sob, sob, sob.No, that isn't me crying. sigh ... yeah, I see the fog rolling in. It'll hit about 8:45 am, Wednesday morning. Yippy skippy.

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Next Monday night our family is

Let's start the New Year off with a BANG! Let's

Our thirty year class reunion was last August. It seems like every since I have been taking many strolls down memory lane regarding my childhood I have been spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about my past. It is amazing, to me, how much of my happiness has been in the past 10 years. True, contented, happin

As I write here I am conscious of the fact that other people's lives and their stories are their own. Even when they are "my" children and grandchildren their story does not belong to me. When mine were growing up they confronted me one time and told me that as much as they enjoyed hearing about stories from their chil

I drafted this post in 2008 and, for some reason, never published it. At

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Before I begin I would like to remind everyone that I have written many a passionate piece on Parkinsons. On NCO we even have a whole section devoted to Parkinsons. But, there are times when you just have to laugh and roll with the punches. This is about one of those times.Over this past wee

Yes, it NEEDS to. I think few people reali

What makes a country great, what makes our country great, and one of the greatest on earth, is not that our laws allow us to do but what we will fight to allow others to do, even if it is something we, ourselves, do not necessarily believe or support. What many of my "liberal" fri

I spent most of my teen years either on the ball field or in the gym. Yeah, I know, to look at me now you would hardly kn

A path chosen. Freedom, to believe what you wish to believe, to worship how you wish to worship, and to speak about it.

What a fantastic wedding! We live streamed it via Ustream, a live podcast. I posted it to facebook so all of our family and friends would know, but was in a hurry and didn't check to make sure that my post went through, wouldn't you know, facebook totally failed us! When we got back from the wedding there was a message from

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I've come down with a case of the druthers. I'd druther be ripping all of the weeds out of the hillside garden, then writing. I'd druther be placing large

Monday Hubby and I spent most of the late morning and early afternoon ...  

Last night I decided to finally decorate, because I t

An alert came from all over that there is a storm

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Devon Gundry's tribute to Kathy GrammerRed Grammer singing Kathy's song See Me Beautiful on the Great Wall of ChinaThank-you for your songs and, with your husband Red, bringing so much joy to our children, our lives and our car trips. Rest well and then hav