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Unite, women of the U.S.! Please do not be fooled by the hype you’re hearing from the left, all that stuff about the economy, education, public service (God knows, we’ve already got our hands full enough keeping the kids—and our husbands—out of trouble), and all of that left-wing blather about tax cuts for middle-class […]

Ms. Clinton, Mr. McCain: Guess who’s really out of touch? It’s not Barack Obama this time.
In the last few months, the earnings of this writer have gone from comfortably more than the average middle class family of four to a Social Security check and a few thousand in freelance earnings. Anybody who thinks that doesn’t […]

This morning, when I checked my email, I found a comment that needed to be moderated. The comment read:
Not bad at all, but this topic is rather little of interest. Please do not disappoint your readership.
When I tried to visit the URL included with the message, Google popped up a “malware” warning and informed […]

I’m sick of this campaign! I still believe that there might be something else important going on in the world.
John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee, possibly because he’s the only one with the tenacity to hang on. Like Hill-Billary, he’s determined to fight to the death or for the next 100 years, whichever […]

Well, last night, for the very first time, I decided that I should take a photo or 10 of the lunar eclipse, especially since I heard there won’t be another full eclipse until December 2010. I’ve never really done any night photography beyond a couple of snapshots in fairly well-lit areas. I did have a […]

The picture above is a Corel Painter interpretation in pastels of a photo of oleander flowers taken in Fresno, California, outside my hotel room, when I visited for Thanksgiving in November 2004. This image is available for print, in its original size (12″ w X 10″ h) by special order, or in 13″ X 10″ […]

I started this blog months ago to post a travel journal for my family and friends when I moved from Ohio to California. Then I got busy looking for a job and doing freelance work, and abandoned it. Now, and this is a long story so I’ll go into it later, I’m back […]