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My favorite way to spend a few minutes on a mental health break is to play online backgammon or some of the free card games on Yahoo or other online game sites. I first discovered online games way back in the early 90′s, when Microsoft launched their “Village of Games.” Now there are dozens of [...]
So many people drive to work as a mindless exercise every day. They back out of their driveway and take the same route to work, sitting in rush hour traffic and stressing until they get to their office. The drive to work is a dull, boring routine. I can’t do that. I’ll drive to work [...]
I have no idea why I am so fascinated with earthquakes, but I have a morbid curiousity with them. I look at the USGS earthquake maps almost every day. I see patterns and clusters of quakes and it is amazing how Mother Nature can impact our daily lives with such unpredictable occurrences as earthquakes and [...]
Every summer we used to get the entire family together at my mother’s lake home, but with all the children and spouses or significant others, the grandchildren and (this year for the first time) great grandchildren, this large a crowd is getting to be too much for Mother to handle. So this year we decided [...]
It used to be that the last week of April meant the New Orleans Jazz Fest, but then Hurricane Katrina came along and ruined everything. My son has been to New Orleans on business several times since Katrina and he says it is still a mess, almost nothing has been cleared away and rebuilt. Just [...]