Category: Thoughts
Farming The Government Way
An AP article on May 15th caught my attention. The title said: House approves $290B farm bill.
What really caught my attention was the line which said,
almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land
Stop a moment to consider. That is $30 billion paid out to farmers so they will not produce food. (See […]
Interesterified Fat and Prenatal Urination
What do interesterified fat and prenatal urination have in common? Nothing, except I learned something new about both of them recently. It would be very interesting if they had something more in common than that. As it is, I found what I learned about both to be both educational and interesting. Perhaps you will also […]
The Interview
As done by aSeamstress.
1.What is the best piece of advice that you’ve ever been given?
The best advice was from my Dad. Rather than being a piece of advice he has given on one particular occasion it has been his general exhortation to me in life. Distilled down to a pithy saying, it would be something […]
Full Circle
It’s strange how life can travel in full circles. The years roll past and what once was is now reversed.
When I was growing up my grandparents had a camper in a summer RV camp in Pennsylvania. For a few summers around the time I was 12 they invited us three oldest boys for a week’s […]
I Remember
Note: The following piece was written shortly after the events of September 11th, 2001. This website was not in existence then, and I am republishing the essay here, five years later. The tone of writing reflects the time in which it was written, and I felt it might form an interesting pair with my retrospective […]
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