Yesterday Sue and I went to a meeting dealing with poverty (one put on and attended by some of my colleagues). It was held in a rather new public library in a poorer section of town (in Ybor City in Tampa Florida ( Read more... )

I'm battling depression ( Read more... )

Today we got a notice in the mail - sometime in the next few days, they will be switching out our electric meter, because the type we have has been found to be prone to catching fire ( Read more... )

Al-Jazeera has a good news article (maybe editorial) on what is taught at "Bob Jones" university - punish the victim.

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/6/18/bob-jones-universitysexualabuse.htmlThis should horrify people. The sad fact is that it is very widespread ( Read more... )

There were three articles in the paper today about Dozier "School for Boys". It seems that people's interest is taking off ( Read more... )

Even though I was afraid (we've already had too many kitties poisoned and the loss of my shop to Christian Arson is a blow from which we have never recovered), I wrote a letter to the editor regarding bullying. They've been having a big series on it and a lot of political brouhaha about the topic every since some girls bullied a young lady in this ( Read more... )

Good news and bad news ( Read more... )

More on the Dozier school situation ( Read more... )

I learned yesterday that Bob Willoughby and "FATHER" James Coleman were good friends. Again, I was a poor judge of character ( Read more... )

Two  nights ago, it sounded like WWIII outside... or if you've ever been to a fireworks display where the "trailer" caught fire, you know what it sounded like.  It was like that for at least 30 minutes, and some of the explosions rattled our windows.  I walked down the road to where I could see some of the explosions through the trees/bush, and it ( Read more... )