Thursday Shorts….

Jim Hightower | CORPORATE AMERICA’S “CHEAP” IMPORT ADDICTION Let’s be honest. China’s trillion-dollar-a-year export economy is based squarely on the country’s deliberate lack of humane standards. That’s precisely why our

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Midweek musings on a Wednesday evening…

As I sat reading my email and the news online this morning I had visions of reading the news not all that many years ago. Newsprint and ink stains…Reading the

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Eugene Robinson – Good Morning, Vietnam! – washingtonpost.com

I spend most of my time these days trying to ignore the insane direction that George W Bush and his enablers have taken this country for the past six years.

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Labor Day on a cloudy, rainy Monday.

Status Report: The remodeling of our lone bathroom was finally completed yesterday after noon. We have spent the last day finding the little nicks and dings that will be driving

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Labor Day Weekend Sunday – Day 6 of a 3 day project…

I always know a remodeling project will take longer than anticipated when I am doing all of the work myself and without help. I did not expect to watch the

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Saturday – First of September…High summer is over.

We slept in our own beds for the first time since Monday last night. The construction crew worked till almost 10pm making sure the most important part of the newly

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The romodeling saga continues with another night planned for the local Best Western…

No matter how much wishing and wanting you might do, remodeling projects take longer than the best laid plans. Looks like another night at the Best Western for the three

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