The Federal Budget Explained
There is a great explanation of President Obama's budget on YouTube It uses pennies. This is my attempt to embed...
Senior Options
I am helping Nurit manage her parents through the labyrinth of medical, personal and societal choices that aging...
MT (Mental Therapy)
When you are hurt or have an operation you are often given Physical Therapy (PT). It seems to me that many older...
Zimbabwe
Inflation got a little bit out of hand in Zimbabwe last year and they printed this One Hundred Trillion dollar...
Bingo!
The Pope John Paul II center in La Habra, California has Bingo on Thursdays. My question is: Would Pope John Paul...
Postal Rate Increase
This is a Public Service announcement: Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009 Click here to go to the USPS...
Jerry Found
I feel like Columbo. "One more Philippine post...." I'd lost Jerry, our dive-master's, email address and had to...
Does History Repeat?
I got this cartoon from Joe S. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4/21/1934. It is a dire warning about the...
Plants that Swim
A couple of weeks ago I posted a bunch of photos of Crinoids. I know you didn't believe that they were in fact...
April 20, 2009 Maxim
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats From Smile Southern...
