Have you noticed how many celebrities are dying these days? In the last week I think I’ve counted two major ones (Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson), one ‘has been’ (Gale Storm), a side kick (Ed McMahon), one or two television commercial personalities, a few spouses of almost famous people, and …

Kids are goofy little creatures. They remind me of dogs….or dogs remind me of kids, something like that. I have four grand kids, all between the ages of 20 months and six years old. One loves me, one likes me, one is indifferent to me, and one won’t have anything …

We all do stupid things in life. This was one of my many stupid adventures….
About a year ago I wrote a blog that I called “Banging on the dashboard of the 55 Pontiac”, or something like that. The blog was about how when I was 14 years old, I took …

I was watching the new movie “Year One” yesterday and there was this scene where a large crowd was cheering the execution of two men. Then the two men distracted the crowd by changing their attention to something else and soon the crowd was cheering on that other thing. To …

God is serious stuff. He must be because we approach the subject with such a grim attitude. At least that was my experience growing up catholic. I remember people in church praying with the same fervor as if they were testifying at a murder trial. If the priest or nuns …

It’s just around the corner, my least favorite season of the year. Summer wouldn’t be so bad if wasn’t hot. I really don’t get the “heat” thing. To me it’s one of those things in life that everybody seems to like, but it doesn’t make any sense! But then again, …

When I hit the road in March of 1972, heading up north on highway 99 from Southern California, I was looking for a Mayberry in the west. Chico was Mayberry. I still feel like Chico is a large version of Mayberry, but maybe I’m looking at it through rose colored …

“Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”
Thank you Becky

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Whenever the idea of single payer health care is bought up, everybody in Washington, especially the right wing, start screaming “socialism”! Funny how they never scream “socialism” when it comes to who is paying their wages and perks. Then they go on to make two points that just don’t hold …