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It looks to me as tho' the "war on drugs" against marijuana has been lost. It's use is just too common. The government is spending waay too much money combating it and damaging way too many lives of people who have gotten caught up in the "war." Besides, people who will do absolutely anything...

I can go back 200-300 years ago in my own family but I know a little more about my grandmother's family and their life. My grandmother's mother was born the same week that South Carolina seceded from the union in 1860. If we look at her family, we can see how terrible our child mortality rate...

My cousin went to school at the University of Western Australia in Perth :). He was the only one in the family who has been a world traveler, goes to Europe often and spent several years in Japan. He is also, by far, the best educated of the lot of us ;). He said our family would like it in...

I was reading about a new study on a blog for The Economist, a British newspaper, about corruption - least and most corrupt countries in the world. I got there thinking about Rockin'Robin's "Woman's generosity to trooper triggers New York police search" thread from yesterday. The government...

There you go, Namaste! I'm sure that however you decide to handle it, it will turn out okay. What a good, positive attitude! But, maybe you shouldn't be too quick to judge your co-workers. The way we come to understand someone is by putting ourselves in their place, don't you think? If they try...

What would be the harm in telling those you work with, "don't ever think I'm ignoring you, I'm just a little hard of hearing?" It doesn't sound like you are a person who ignores people, or wants to. It also doesn't sound like a statement from someone who is looking for pity. My work career, and...

Sounds like he IS a good police officer! That gift won't go wrong. Dear wife was just saying how "nice" people in authority make it easier for regular folks. I pointed out that a nice person that we know in government is tragically slow getting things done. I'm not sure if she has just...

If Santa can do more than just warm socks and a new hat for me . . . it would be nice to have a Senate that would sign off on a treaty with the rest of the world to discourage discrimination against disabled people. Even with a former leader sitting in his wheelchair and looking on...

That's an interesting take on what the teacher had to say: It might not even be just the jargon of a science but a deeper understanding, as well. I'm still wondering if the teacher was talking about art. Cortmg23 was talking about emotion. There isn't much emotion to science and we usually...

Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you; plug up my ears, and I can still hear; even without feet I can walk toward you, and without mouth I can still implore. Break off my arms, and I will hold you with my heart as if it were a hand; strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb; and...

I think that makes sense, Cortmg23. I guess I'd never thought of literacy in quite that way altho' I know full well that oral histories can be fully as meaningful as anything that could be found in a book. I don't sign and don't know much about it so if your question is in that direction, it...

Well, I don't know . . . We have a family friend who must be about 80. I noticed that she finally stopped dyeing her hair! She has always been a very dark brunette. Now, she looks very distinguished (if I may use that term with women :)). My 42 year old son seems to have more grey hair than I...

Thank you for that correction! No, I was only without hearing aids the first semester. Things became easier with the hearing aids but I just hadn't realized how bad my hearing was until I went back to school. It was like having the house fall in on me, that first semester.

Both of my parents' younger brothers went into the military during the final months of WW2. They were both still in the Navy for the Korean War. In fact, Mom's younger brother went back into the service during the 1st few years of Vietnam. (one dang thing after another . . .) He really seemed...

A confession like that, Caz12, calls into question your statement on the other thread that it was your sister who was the person in your family who always got whatever she wanted! :giggle: Oh my gosh! My list for Santa has finally shown up on the first page of this thread! Saved!!

Oh, I get it! The "moaners" were the . . . Boomers' Echo! Maybe, that's not it. . . My father is still alive and will be 95 in a couple of months. "Greatest" generation some have said and I guess we may as well think of those survivors like that: they are almost gone. Besides just surviving...

At age 67, you may or may not be able to say that you were born after World War II. We would like to see a birth certificate! (Just kidding!!!) Where do these labels come from?? I think we can use the old saying, "they are cut from the whole cloth." And, that just means that someone made them...

Hi Aaron. I have just joined the forums but have been hearing impaired for many years. The hearing problems have just gotten more and more serious in recent years. After having gone thru several pages of posts here, it seems to me that a lot of the members are students. I was hearing impaired...

Thank you! "Moaners?!?" I knew there was something of a "baby bust" generation because of the drop in the birthrate. My son is 40-something but I don't believe he knows a single grandparent from his group, yet. He's going grey, tho' . . :cry: . Edited to ask: Can someone tell me if there is a...

I don't know whether I've been naughty or nice but dear wife has always had waaay too many ideas of what I should have. So, I've shown her the shirts never taken out of the bottom drawer and made sure that she realized that all my warm socks are on the verge of "holiness." Trying to keep up...