My Own Thoughts

A comment on CNN's retail review says that sales have gone up, just not much. It's the growth, the more-than-last -year numbers that keep retailers in business. Their costs go up, just like ours. I went to the CNN link, but I'm having trouble with my webbrowser today, so I wasn't able to copy the [...]

I am waffling on my view of pregnant Midge, Barbie's married friend. I think it can be a great idea for young girls. It lets them have a baby with a mom, who has a wedding ring on. But older girls' parents at Wal-Mart said it was promoting teen pregnancy. (Barbie's over 40, but she [...]

Body for lifeis a health challenge wherein which, for 12 weeks, you eat well six days a week and work out, alternating aerobics with weights, six days a week. You get one free day. The program is fairly simple, see “Getting a hot body” in an earlier blog entry for a more in-depth description. I [...]

This is one of my goals. I want to have a hot body, clothed or naked. If you read “Cleavage,” you already know I have the breasts for it. But, though I wear a size ten, which is an average size, I am still carrying excess fat. I am carrying a lot less of it [...]

My brother was here for the holidays. I turned to my boys, ages 10 and 11, and said, “See Uncle's hair? That's what color your mommy's hair really is, with more gray.” I don't know if they were amazed or astonished. I've been dying my hair for fourteen years now. It's been red, mostly, all [...]

My 11-year old son, an inveterate gamer, found a link on the internet that he really wanted to talk to me about. So we talked. He said the question was, why did things like Columbine happen? When women were asked this question, every single one said “violent video games.” I told him that it was [...]

Found a site with a quiz that will, supposedly, tell you what scifi author you most closely resemble. I took the quiz and was told I was like Gregory Benford. I read scifi, but I don't know this guy's works. When I changed a few answers to my second choices or my other first choices, [...]

I went out to eat with my siblings and Dad tonight. Since the two siblings in question live in NC and I don't, that's pretty cool. After dinner, the waitress wished us happy holidays. I smiled and said, You, too. But inside I was wondering, what holidays? Oh, yeah. Christmas. It's not that I don't [...]

First, the blog software keeps putting the wrong date in. I have checked in Options, it knows where I live. Then, when I went to put in a saved draft, I changed the date of it, but the blog software insisted on putting it in on the date I saved it. Even though that wasn't [...]

Blame the WordGoddess. First, I wish I'd thought of that title. WordGoddess. She did the Twelve Days of Christmas and I just had to try some of it. But then I realized if I had done that, my whole blog would be forever long today. So I am just going with day 8: Eight of [...]

But it's not the terrorists who are the problem. It's the police. The handlers. The supervisors who lie for their officers. The officials who cover up the truth because admitting that their officers manhandled a woman and then humiliated her in public would get them in trouble. It's always scary to me what the people [...]

Blogs Make the Headlines is the kind of thing I was thinking of when I wrote Terror at the Airport. Bloggers, if there are enough, have power. And apparently, there are enough.

Having trouble getting in the perfect 10 vegetables and fruits a day? Wondering how Prevention Magazine could really expect you to make the “nine divine” a part of everyday living? According to this study on Reuter's Health, one vegetable each week, can cut your chances of stomach cancer (the number 2 killer worldwide) in half. [...]

Plastic carried a story on a site where you can go and post anonymously that a professor was dogmatically imposing his liberalism. They ended the article with the comment that a student who got a D would report a teacher this way. First, anonymous is a good thing in some ways. Folks who have a [...]

Some folks own a restaurant in Arizona. Workers speaking in their native languages, not English, were being abusive to customers–who also spoke that native language and knew what they were saying. So the owners asked their workers to sign a paper saying they would only speak English at work. Now they're being sued. You know, [...]

Today it's been 14 years since our wedding in the town in which we now live. (We didn't live here then.) I have the greatest husband. He is incredibly sexy. He is funny. He loves to read. He likes to take me out. He thinks I'm perfect. This morning I got a beautiful garnet (read [...]

This is an opinion piece by one of the places I read a lot. The question they are asking is Does the US need Iraqi oil? and basically the answer is no. We don't need it. We have plenty. We can get it other places. So why do we need Iraq to be stable? Well, [...]

A description of the response to the US Copyright's office's request for public response to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We're against it seems to have been the overwhelming opinion of the public. I'd have to agree. If I own a book, I am allowed to lend it, to sell it, to give it away, [...]

This is an op-ed piece on why we haven't made it to the stars. Still. My husband is also a child of the 70s. A dreamer of living in space. I am resigned, already, to taking off to the stars if they ever let average people on a colony ship, no matter how old we [...]

I love to read. I have my favorite authors. According to this article, someday my favorite might be a whole bunch of people. The article, talking about collaborative authors publishing under one ficticious name, says that folks shouldn't be surprised when the name on the book isn't the name of the author. Sorry, I pay [...]