We Are More Alike Than Different

If this is your first visit to the website, please see the Welcome above. With the U.S. Presidential campaign (along with all the lesser ones) starting in earnest, we can expect the various candidates to tell us how different they … Continue reading

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Can Coddled Kids Grow Up Strong? Part II

If this is your fist visit to the website, please see the Welcome, above. My previous blog centered around a specific (minor) event.  A lady’s Letter to the Editor expressed her disappointment that “adults took away a girl’s moment” when … Continue reading

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Can Coddled Kids Grow Up Strong? Part I

If this is your first visit to the website, please see the Welcome above. I was searching for a good topic to blog on this week, when my local paper’s Letters to the Editor delivered one to me.  A lady … Continue reading

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John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Characters – Entertaining on the screen, poor role models for real life

If this is your first visit to the site, please see the Welcome above Less violence in our lives would make this world a better place for our Grandchildren. Two recent murders in opposite corners of the U.S. got me thinking.  … Continue reading

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The Circle of Life

Our family just welcomed the newest addition: Logan Christopher, 7 lbs. 13 oz.  He was almost a “Leap Baby.”  Mom and baby are doing great.  Logan joins older brother Brycen as my second “bio” grandkid and joins a whole host … Continue reading

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Republican Debate – Too Much Saber Rattling

More war is not a better world for our Grandchildren. Background I watched the Arizona Republican Debate, 2/22/12 primarily to decide who I want to support in the Washington State Republican caucuses.  Washington State will not have a presidential primary … Continue reading

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Opposition Rebuttal – Just Another Media (TV) Event

Shortly after the President has finished the State of the Union, and the TV commentators have offered their views, the opposition ( Democrat or Republican) party presents its version of the State of the Union in the form of a … Continue reading

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