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Sunday Paper

Donna — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:31:37 +0000

We did not get our Sunday paper this morning. I went out at 6:30, then again at 7:30 and there’s no paper. My neighbors don’t subscribe, so I don’t know if the paper carrier came though here or not, as there are no other driveways to check and see if they got one and just not me. This is so frustrating. I was looking forward to sipping on my cup of coffee and reading the paper this morning for an hour or so while everyone else sleeps in late and the house is quiet. Bummer!

Flash Floods

Donna — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:50:41 +0000

In all the years I’ve lived here, I have seen some flooding, but nothing like the rain and flooding we are having this weekend. It has been raining very hard, almost constantly, for 3 straight days. The highways are under water and entire neighborhoods are being evacuated. Scary times for Tennessee, but we are on high ground and should be safe.

Remembering the Tragedies

Donna — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:17:20 +0000

Nine eleven was such a shocking and sad day for America. It is hard to believe that it happened 8 years ago. It seems like just 2 or 3 years ago, the hurt is still so fresh in my mind.

Gas Prices are Crazy!

Donna — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:33:30 +0000

One of my biggest uplanned expense each week is the cost of gas. I never know how much driving I’ll be doing and I don’t know how much the cost of gas will be from week to week. Last month I had hopes that gas would be dropping back to about $2.00 a gallon – or perhaps a little under that, if we got very lucky.

But last week, gas jumped back up to $2.59 a gallon and I have no idea why it went up so quickly. I’ve heard nothing on the new about bad weather or oil shortages anywhere. So what the heck is going on?

France Takes a Stand for Women

Donna — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:31:47 +0000

Today, France took a big step forward for women.

“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a presidential address to the French Parliament.

“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement – I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”

I totally agree with him and yet it worries me that the French want to start a religious issue. Religious wars are the ones that drag on forever and no one seems to win them.