The anomaly is that people in America are living 30 years longer than people in the 20^th century but only working two years longer.  In 2000, the average retirement age was 62, and the average retirement age in 2010 was 64.  Many of the recent retirements were involuntary: the massive lay-offs between 2008-2012 because of the Great Recession, corporate mergers and consolidations,…

About ten years ago I web-met (is that a verb?) A young children’s writer and artist, Valerie Melville. We were both nominees for awards in EPIC (Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition) http://www.epicorg.com

Valerie has social skills that I lack. It would never have occurred to me to write her. She was obviously friends with many other EPIC members and she was obviously young. In my experience young writers who have fans don’t socialize with…

Bilderberg Group 2011 Official Attendee List Leaks Exposing World’s Most Powerful New World Order Illuminati…

My daughter has always attended Special Education classes. As many know, she is challenged with a low IQ, Asperger's Syndrome and OCD, to name a few problems. She is high functioning in some ways though, due in large measure to the fact that I was not going to have a spoiled brat for a child, no matter what her limitations were.…

Sometimes things happen for a reason and they are meant to be.

Sometimes you get angry with outside inference as all you want to do is write and read others.…

           What happened to 74-year-old Novato, California resident Dale Smith? His wife Evelyn age 55 never mentioned he had left to anyone until two weeks ago. She had told a questioning neighbour Phil Olbranz that her honey was missing and then started talking about her spouse in the past tense. So the concerned good neighbour did what anyone else would do and called the police.  Cadaver dogs were brought to the home and found poor Dale’s body buried in the backyard.

So…

As a child I had to constantly live in an imaginary world and one of the happiest times I enjoyed was with Rocky and Bullwinkle. The creator Jay Ward was beyond clever and sometimes I think he is greatly responsible for my strange sense of humour.

The first time I watched Crusader Rabbit I was hooked and it was all…

Last week on my Open salon blog I wrote how Sweet Valley High and Nancy Drew changed my life and I will put the links on the bottom if you are interested in reading them.

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As a child I had to constantly live in an imaginary world and one of the happiest times I enjoyed was with Rocky and Bullwinkle. The creator Jay Ward…

Lesson 4



Reflections on life based upon the book “God Never Blinks” 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours by Regina Brett



Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously. No One Else Does.



In this story Regina reflects back upon her need to be perfect. She uses many different examples to express how she often missed the big picture and all the positives in life by people pleasing, beating herself up for tiny little errors andor focusing on something that ultimately ended up being…

May the following story lift your spirits for all of man kind!

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When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it. Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived…