When I bought my super-duper, over-powered V-8 retr0-monster a few years ago, the only thing that I was impressed with was the brochure that told me it would go zero to 60 in 4.1.  The brochure didn't lie.

Going fast is great, stopping straight and fast is much better. … Read full post »

Call me Old School.  Not because it is trendy, because it has a visceral meaning beyond anything that will happen in Tampa today. 

Don't get me wrong, I love football.  I especially love the movie "Diner" where the fiance has to pass a test, multiple choice of the Baltimore Colts… Read full post »

 I know I'm just a Terrier.  I'm three, which is just shy of four.  I was born on April Fools,  so that makes me a bit of a prankster.  But, Mom put the Christmas tree up today, and as a live and breathe, as I was sitting by the fire… Read full post »

Reverse Elitism.  I know that it is fashionable to bash the last and most courageous survivor of Camelot as seems to be popular here on OS.   She has been born with a silver spoon, but as many of her cousins have either squandered thier public service heritage, she has bee… Read full post »

Keep Walking, It's just a Recession.

I lived through the Recession in the 70's.  gas lines by liscence plate numbers,  unbelievable interest rates, high unemployment, Whip Infaltion Now; WIN.  It was hard.  My mother, a single woman without a college degree found it rough… Read full post »

I have not seen my parents together since 1969 when they decided to divorce and go thier separate ways.

My sister and I were left with my grandmother at her beach house.  And at age ten, I learned to live with the loss of both parents at once.  My seven… Read full post »

This is easy, peasy, Japaneasy.  Worst job ever?!  Working at a small PBS station.  PBS is a system with 12o odd stations that go from the big five in NYC, DC, Boston, Seattle and SFO to tiny stations like ours.

But most of the stations were like mine, small, underfunded and… Read full post »

I live among mountains that take your breath away.  The colors change from the blending of sky and earth at dawn to the hard sharp edges of noon, to the warm golden glow of the sun racing off to California in the afternoon.

The people here don't take my breath away, they scar… Read full post »