Around the Neighborhood

It was nice this morning so I decided to go for a walk in the neighborhood.  It’s interesting what you see decorating people’s homes right now.  Halloween decorating is the thing this month.  You won’t find any decorations for Halloween at my house so I enjoyed seeing what others have done.  Norm and I are [...]

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Birthday Recap Part Two

OK, I bet you’ve been waiting for this one!  Norm, my often wonderful husband, arranged a birthday celebration for me with some of our friends at Norm’s favorite restaurant, the Pink Taco.  We got there early to make sure the table seating arrangement was just right, but we could have gotten there late because

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Birthday Recap

My birthday turned out to be a rather fun day.  I used my Red Robin free birthday burger coupon and it was delicious.  Normally they give you a sundae on your birthday but I requested a banana shake.  All of my favorite servers and management staff at the Tempe Red Robin gathered around to sing [...]

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Half Her Age

Tomorrow I will be another year older.  I figured out that I will be exactly the same age my grandmother was the day I was born.  Incredible!  I can’t imagine being a grandmother at my age when I don’t even have any children.

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The Ups and Downs

It’s not so good to watch the news anymore.  Everything is bad as far as the media is concerned.  Especially when you look at the stock market.  I do not own any investments in stocks or bonds so on the one hand I’m not personally affected by all that I hear these days.  However, according [...]

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Do We Really Want Government Run Health Care?

My friend Richard sent me this letter from his friend Tom who is a barrister (lawyer) in England.  They are amateur astronomy buds.  Tom has lived with the National Health Service all his life and knows first hand the dangers of socialist medicine.

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The Day After

OK, I don’t know about you but last night’s town hall meeting was rather depressing, not to mention boring and downright stupid at times!  Listening to it gave me a headache and made me start to think perhaps I should find more ways to cut spending at home since the government’s going to take more [...]

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Political Pondering

How is it that health care is a right for everyone but life is not?

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