Quoted: "For a really healthy development of all the arts, you need an educated audience as well as performers." --Eleanor Roosevelt ( Read more... )

Quoted: "If they want to ask me some impudent questions, I'll try to give them some impudent answers." --Harry S. Truman

Explanations: Reuters reported Monday that the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to overturn a decision by an appeals court that upheld as constitutional the national 'Do Not Call' registry. Telemarketers who call a number on ( Read more... )

"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance, and mystery than by facts." --Eleanor Roosevelt ( Read more... )

If you are so inclined, you can fill in the blanks. What you write doesn't have to be profound; it just need to be honest ( Read more... )

The Roman Catholic church has a good practice in confession, though for a strange reason, and with a method I wouldn't use ( Read more... )

I felt like strangling a little boy this Saturday... two little boys, actually ( Read more... )

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 2 questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. I will answer them honestly (within reason). Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything to which you must answer honestly.

I hate bikinis ( Read more... )

The time has come. Livejournal.com has 1,701,330 active users, and I obviously can't keep up with them all, so my list of watched and trusted journals must be limited. Therefore, and in an effort to better keep up with the people whose journals I read and the people about whom I care very deeply, I'm purging my lists. I'm trying to get down to ( Read more... )

My life is rather long for the amount of experience I have. Or so it seems to me. I have the feeling that I should have accumulated more experiences or experiences in a wider range of areas than I have now. I've been to Costa Rica, Poland, and Germany. I've made flight connections in El Salvador and the Netherlands. I've been to more than half ( Read more... )