I love this picture of Laura and me. It was taken right after we rode the roller coaster at Coney Island. *heavy sigh*

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As a person ages, perspectives and priorities change.  (Hold that thought, and back-peddle with me 40 years.)

I can remember seething inside when, in my twenties, some older person would say, "Just wait.  You're young.  You'll see it differently when your my age."

Inside, I would be saying, "You are a shithead."

Confession moment: (Okay now we're back ( Read more... )

That's when I started reading CNN, MSNBC, listening to Keith Olberman, and Rachel Maddow, almost every day.

I hung on every nuance of the election, every slip of Palin's tongue, and twists of the economy.

I watched MSNBC beat Bill O'Reilly six days in a row.  Watched Tina Fay and Ben Afflect do their impressions.  I actually joined the mainland of ( Read more... )

My letter to the editor got published in the Hawaii Tribune Herald today, October 1, 2008.
Maybe the New York Times will pick it up and I can be on the Daily Show.

Heart has issued a 'cease and desist' order

http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-35341520080906

Dumb and dumber...

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My previous blog entry admitted that I was a grouch.

Therefore, it should be no surprise that this blog entry will address the idea that I am of the older generation.

This is disgusting when one considers that I was 23 at the 1968 democratic convention.  That's the convention with the famous picture of a young person (of which I was one) shooting ( Read more... )

I admit it.
I'm getting very grouchy in my old age. I get hot in 29 degree weather.  Ask Eric and Laura.  I sweat like a mother.
My husband and Gay call me Lucy Van Pelt. Because I'm a grouch. Not because I sweat.

That being said, we had to have our house tented.  For those of you who don't live close to the equator, that's a very normal occurrence ( Read more... )

 My brief visit with Eric, Laura, and Sophie did not include my usual place to stay.  I had to find a new place and it was unusual.  Here is a picture that was in the bathroom.


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