We, as human beings, are considered a civilized race. We wear clothing and eat with forks and spoons. We attend institutions to further our education and become valuable members of society. We raise our children until they are grown. We strike a sharp contrast to our inferior animal pop… Read full post »

I was born into what I think is a “traditional family”. The type of family where the father went to work and mother stayed home to raise the children. At the time, I didn't think much of it – it was common back then … something that managed to survive… Read full post »

As we get ready to ring in the New Year with plans to move forward and let the past lie, let us not yet forget some of the momentous occasions, both good and bad that affected us during 2011.

January 8, 2011 – The Tucson Shooting

Nineteen people… Read full post »

I was 18 years old when I had my first minor surgery … up until then, I was able to say that I was the picture of health. I recall little about the actual process but, almost twenty years later, I still remember how the nurses treated me. They were cold… Read full post »

If you’ve ever come up with a great and innovative idea for a blog, chances are good that someone has already come up with it. In fact, blogs are so widespread these days that you’d be lucky to pick a random keyword out of a Latin dictionary and not find a/… Read full post »

I rarely watch the news. I don’t subscribe to a newspaper, local or not. Honestly, the only time I really crack open a web-based news service is when I hear, through word of mouth, that something big is going on. Considering that, when an acquaintance mentioned that there was… Read full post »

Today is the first day back to school for the children in our area, and while my 15-year-old son expressed his severe malcontent with that fact as he mumbled and stumbled out the door to start the new year, I was struck by the thought that I lost some of the… Read full post »

The age of internet has created a handy method of taking care of day-to-day tasks. Online banking, shopping, and communications save us time and money, and allow us to take care of obligations at our own convenience, so it seems almost ridiculous to say that we're more disorganized now than we… Read full post »

Zbang It LTD has introduced MultiMi - a handy little desktop application that takes all of your social services, like email and networks, and crams them into one place. Of course, there are many other sites and applications that claim to do the same - and they do - but not… Read full post »

With so many social media tools available on the web, it’s easy to get caught up in a spiderweb of what tool works best for what site, and so on. I know I’ve spent many hours, myself, simply trying to work out the benefits of many tools that make great promises,… Read full post »

Cell phone spy software is constantly evolving. Once used to track a person’s location, software now offers the ability to remotely turn on a cell phone’s speakerphone so that you can listen to any conversations that are happening within its listening distance.

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