A huge THANKS to all of your who periodically return to read and comment on my personal (over 70 year old) viewpoints. I am humbled.
(The most recent entries are at the bottom of this page) To Get Started: It is clear that since the Attacks of Sept 11, We have to learn to be more vigilant of our surroundings. It is not necessary to become a recluse in order to survive in these times. I live in a small (30,000 pop) community and eye contact is the norm. I have lived in big cities where eye contact is avoided in order to survive. Times have changed. Seeing who is around you, what is out of place, or what is not normal, is going to be one o
Gas Prices There isn't anyone that I know who is comfortable with the war. It's not a lack of patriotism. It's not that they don't support our troops. It's just that there's this huge amount being spent, in both monetary and human terms, which is getting harder and harder to justify for even those who initially favored the attack on Iraq. Make no mistake, this war is about oil. If our checks and balances were functioning normally, Congress should have intervened on behalf of We, the People, to restrict the