I read with interest that Wachovia Corp. has written a few paragraph letter of apology for it's subsidary companies part in slave-mongering back in the 1800's. Link Apparently 2 banks that Wachovia bought have been shown to have accepted slaves as payment against default loans and allowed slaves to be used as collateral.  Not Wachovia themselves, mind you, but companies that they bought out, long after the fact. So, why did they write and issue the letter of apology? To me, it s...

My kid Jake is 9 today.  He's pretty stoked about it...he's dying to get into double digits and this year is the last year he'll be in singles... Jake's my youngest, my last child, and my summer solstice baby.  Born at a little after 6 in the evening, he took his time coming but when he decided it was time, he came fast.  Dave had to stick his head out of my hospital room and yell for a nurse because I was pushing (didn't want to or mean to, but I just couldn't help it)...she c...

(I particularly like numbers 11 and 13.....) 1. I would not allow this employee to breed. 2. This associate is not so much of a has-been, but more definitely a won't be. 3. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap. 4. When she opens her mouth, it seems it is only to change whatever foot was previously there. 5. He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle. 6. This young lady has delusions of adequacy. 7. He set low personal stan...

(I particularly like numbers 11 and 13.....) 1. I would not allow this employee to breed. 2. This associate is not so much of a has-been, but more definitely a won't be. 3. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap. 4. When she opens her mouth, it seems it is only to change whatever foot was previously there. 5. He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle. 6. This young lady has delusions of adequacy. 7. He set low personal stan...

I shouldn't have bought the latest edition of 'People' magazine. Really, it was a bad idea.  D's been gone 3 months, you see.  I've been lacking in male company for that long.  My hormones are stirring, as are my desires.  Things catch my eye that, were he here I'd either not notice or be able to do something about....if you know what I mean. This weeks edition has '50 Hottest Bachelors' in it.  Beautiful, beautiful boys are within the covers...all gleaming whi...

I'm interested in knowing what people's personal beliefs are. I don't want what your book of faith tells you you should believe, so please don't trot out the party line...tell me what YOU think, what YOU hold to be true. I believe in Karma, I believe that what you do comes back to you. I believe that compassion, tolerance and love will get you far, and that spite and anger are destructive properties.   I believe that we have souls, and that when we die our souls are released and are e...

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve took me all of 24 hours to read. The story centers around Kathryn Lyon's grief at being told that the commercial airliner her husband Jack was piloting has gone down off the coast of Ireland.  The ensuing drama follows Kathryn's discovery of Jack's secret life....one of bigamy and terrorism. This book is predictable.  As soon as I had read the first chapter I knew where it was going.  Even the characters were predictable...you had the gr...

Every time I click on an article in the forums to read, I get an error message that says 'object refernce not set to the instance of an object' (or something like that). Am I the only person having this issue?   

I was reading with interest the current campaign by celebrities around the world to make poverty a thing of the past ( www.one.org ) Do they not realize that there's always going to be poverty?  That regardless of how much money is raised, how many people's living conditions are changed, that there will always be the 'haves' and the 'have nots'?  Even when you bring up the basic standard of living for the world's poorest countries and peoples, they will always be living in comparati...

I wandered down to my friend Kim's house earlier, like I usually do in the early evenings. As I walked up the driveway, my daughter came up to me and said "nothing's going on".... .....ooook. That told me that SOMETHING was going down. Kim came out a few moments later and invited me in for coffee.... ....she had got me a big birthday cake, bless her little heart... Here I am with all three of my babies (like my sunburned nose?!): I was taken completely by surprise b...

I'm another year older now.  I'm not offically 36 for another few hours as far as the US is concerned, but it's already June 16th in England where I was born....so I've kissed 35 goodbye and am embracing 36. Wow.  36.  Seems like just yesterday I was revelling in being 18 and legal to drink, and I can vividly recall turning 16.  Now here I am, married 11 1/2 years, with 3 kids...steaming towards 40. I can't say that I'm not where I thought I would be because I've ne...

Link ....Teri Schaivo's parents refuse to belive that she was in a persistent vegetative state. Despite the Medical Examiner's finding's and the autopsy and pharmacology reports, they still don't want to believe that she had no chance of recovery. Just goes to show that faith defies all logic and scientific proof sometimes....