Memorial Day is coming up, and the weather is smiling at us. Do you cook out on the grill or barbecue for the holiday? When I lived up north, is was not uncommon for folks to talk about barbecuing when what they were doing had nothing to do with barbecue. They were cooking out on […]
My mother is no longer with me in body. She died in 2002. I didn’t lose her. To me that sounds as if I don’t know where she is and need to go search for her. She didn’t pass away. That sounds as if she just blew by and is somewhere else around here. I […]
I received my free glass straw from glass dharma. It’s very nice and comes packaged without a bunch of foam and plastic. The entire thing was very earth friendly. I will probably be buying some of these as gifts. I definitely want one of the bamboo cases to carry it in. I thought about the […]
The New York Times just sent out a breaking news alert. Former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was indicted on 16 felony counts. These corruption charges included some involving billions of dollars in state pension bonds. Also included was the fact that he tried to sell Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder. Still makes you […]
Breaking news from The New York Times states that financial stocks led a broad market rally. The Dow is now above 7,000. All this despite a jump in jobless claims and a cut in General Electric’s credit rating. I wouldn’t be getting my hopes up that it will keep going up or even stay above […]
Sorry about the unusual appearance here. We’re undergoing a little construction on the island and some sand is clogging up the works. I have help coming in from the mainland tomorrow and we’ll get the sand blown back out onto the beach where it belongs. In the mean time, just have a seat over here […]
It just doesn’t seem to change a whole lot in Chicago. The political machine of the controlling party has steamrolled it’s way through the years with very little regard for legality and ethics. And now it continues with Obama’s senate seat debacle. Just when we thought Blagojevich might have done something right after all, we seem to have […]
The world’s greatest valentine: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through […]
Breaking news alerts have come in from both The New York Times and The Washington Post. I think we all pretty much knew what would happen with Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. Without a dissenting vote, the Illinois State Senate found him guilty of abuse of his office. He was the eighth governor in United States history to be impeached […]
Today I’m enjoying the freshness of the morning, and feeling blessed. I’m celebrating the birth of my saviour and the abundance with which I’ve been given. Last night I sat out on the beach and watched the stream of brightly decorated boats as they sailed along the coast of the mainland in their annual parade of glory. The […]