Some friends just baptized their twins at our church. Mutual friends attended the baptism, but they do not belong to our church (they’re some of those Catholic types ). They have a daughter exactly the same age as DD (4 weeks apart). The mom is Chinese and the dad is white. Though you (or

DD and I went Father’s Day card shopping today. She had no trouble picking out a card for her dad or for my dad (whom she calls “Grandpa”). Then we looked at card after card after card for FIL. She kept saying no to each, getting more frustrated. I asked, “You don’t like any of

A long time ago I wrote about the kind of daughter-in-law I felt that MIL wanted and the impossibility of her existence. I was thinking today about the flip side - that I also had an image of the MIL I wanted and that she probably wouldn’t exist in real life. Sometimes, when I read others’

No, I didn’t spell wrongly… It was a 3-day event that take placed once in 2 years. Where all tribes and natives of America assembled in Juneau to do a cultural show; exhibiting costumes, singing and dancing. Apache is one of the native was there. Anyone interested? Visit Juneau in 2010 June.     It’s peace time. Yes they have

The news is terrible again for Terrible Herbst. Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its rating on Herbst Gaming’s 8.125 percent senior subordinated notes to ‘D’ from ‘C’, following Herbst’s failure to make an interest payment on June 1, 2008. The bad news for casinos is not limited to Herbst properties.  Bloomberg News reports that “Casino bonds are generating

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I thought I would add a few more  pictures from Vacation Bible School at Indian Springs Baptist Church.  I hope you enjoy them.  

This is a new one to me. Many people know about the dispute with the UND and the NCAA because UND’s mascot is the Fighting Sioux. Under the NCAA rules (I believe, I don’t have the correct wording) schools with potentially offensive ‘nicknames’ or ‘mascots’ had to get permission from, say, the Sioux, or the Illini,

I wrote this about a river in Pascagula, Mississippi. My sister lived in Gautier. MS and lost her home in Katrina. Lung cancer took her life in 2007. This is for Patricia DeWitt-Dixon.     THE SINGING RIVER    In the evening’s velvet darkness Along a distant shore You can hear mystical music Steeped in Indian lore Usually heard in the evening When silence has stilled

I think my neighbors hate me because I still venture in to the old ground where children still manage to rake up some dust playing football and cricket. I was a regular there; I studied my lessons of football, cricket and kabbadi (a bit of all these with football being the loved) from that open