Since President Obama has been trying to normalize relations with Raul/Fidel Castro, I thought now might be the time to go. You know before 4000 passenger … [Read more...]

×In hindsight we can now see what a disaster the Vietnam conflict was.  On the History Channel you can watch hours and hours of video on the feckless way our … [Read more...]

What an iconic movie.  I couldn't wait to say that as soon as the sun came up over the Mekong.  When we got back a friend of mine, who is in her 50's, asked … [Read more...]

By now my husband has a cold and I'm starting a sinus infection.  Reason?  The pollution.  We, here in the good old US of A, are so sanitized and deodorized, … [Read more...]

Yes indeed.  This is my Bernie Sanders travel year.  I just got back from the lands of Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh (for the uninitiated, that's Cambodia and … [Read more...]

When I didn't vote or support President Obama in his runs for the presidency, I had people tell me I was a racist.  No.  With him it strictly had to do with his … [Read more...]

is like a body without a soul...So says Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman philosopher from around 50 BC.  I could not agree with him more.  My husband and I have … [Read more...]

My husband and I had settled into a frequent routine that many couple's fall into after they've been married a while.  After dinner, he'd go in to watch Fox … [Read more...]

The other day I was having lunch with a friend and she was discussing a visit with her grandkids.  She said, "oh how they love to visit their MiMi."  I sat … [Read more...]

This weekend my husband and I went to a local no-kill cat shelter.  You would have thought we were adopting a baby.  I can certainly understand why they do … [Read more...]