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animated-environment.gif stop buying paper towels

(in life, health, environment from 2010)

Save the rain forests and add a little style back to your dinner table. Use dinner napkins. You know, actual cloth napkins. Remember those? Your mother used to use them. Maybe your grandmother. Anyway, stop buying paper towels! It's a ... read more

red-heart-clipart.webp power of your heart

(in life, health, treatment from 2023) by doug

Everyone will absolutely love this short talk about your heart and the power of the heart. Go to minute 2:05 and do the exercise as instructed. click here ... read more

small-business-clipart.webp walmart, 50 years of gutting america's middle class

(in life, money, economy, shopping from 2012)

This (below) is why we hate Walmart. Its explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs. Too many people just want low prices no matter the overall, long-run ... read more

last-train-out-cover.webp last train out

(in culture, writing, books, novels from 2016)

Clay and his adopted daughter, Jenna, look forward to their upcoming homeland tour to Russia. His intentions are pure. Hers, not so much. When she goes missing, his worst fears are realized. She is not the innocent little girl he thou ... read more

resume-clipart-1.webp working for someone else

(in life, money, employment from 2014)

Something I've always hated about working for someone else (in the corporate setting, at least) is that you're expected to believe (or convincingly pretend) that the people in positions above you are in fact superior to you. It's just one ... read more

cities-moscow-st-basils.webp she's warming up to us

(in family, adoption, holmes, travel from 2007)

We had her laughing, smiling and giggling today. I pushed her around on the three-wheeler, then flew her around the room. She ev ... read more

writing-clipart.webp best and worst self-publishing sites

(in culture, writing, advice from 2019)

This is a good site showing who to trust (or not) when it comes to self-publishing: Self-Publishing Services Rated by the Alliance of Independent Authors ... read more


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us diabetes rates rise to nearly 1 in 6 adults
If food manufacturers would stop adding sugar to everything, it would help.

lapd didn't arrest the man riding around with a blowtorch for arson
Misleading headline. He WAS arrested and sits in jail, just not for arson.

study: not a single natural disaster can be blamed on climate change
Sounds about right.

mlb bans 2 fans who grabbed betts indefinitely
They were BANNED indefinitely, they didn't GRAB Betts indefinitely. Headline writing ain't what it used to be.

how much money you should save for a comfortable retirement
$7 million should just about do it.

wef adviser hariri: the planet no longer needs the "vast majority" of the population
Hariri actually used the word "world" not "planet," which is entirely different, but neither the world nor the planet ever did need anyone in particular. Still, everyone (other than murderers, rapists and pedophiles) has the right to exist, and elitists like Hariri can go straight back to hell.

australia drops plan to fine social media giants accused of enabling misinformation
This is the problem with the new use of the word "drop." I can't tell if they're announcing new plans or have stopped planning.

yankees' aaron judge and dodgers' shohei ohtani win mlb mvp awards
They earned it but both disappeared in the World Series.

is psychiatry fake science?
They never got it down to a science.

peanut the instagram-famous squirrel did not have rabies after all, state officials say
So, the authorities-experts-officials were wrong... again.

jury: workers fired for refusing covid shot to get more than $1 million each
Fantastic!

outnumbered by puppets: depopulated village in japan crafts dolls for sense of life
After the first three words, I thought this was an article about the US Congress.

wind from hurricane milton tears apart roof of tampa's tropicana field
Who approved/built such a flimsy roof in a hurricane-prone area?

so...what's the deal with gaza's polio vaccination campaign?
Good question.

new zealand: fear and the covid crisis. the speech that might have changed the world
Wow. Too bad it was never delivered.

china's rare earth monopoly: a strategic chokehold in the clean energy transition
The headline alone should tell you who's behind the clean energy scam.

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i dare you to not love this song and lyrics

(in culture, music, protest from 2021)

bitchute/video/OUuSbbx68Xrc/Wish I could be there. Also wish Americans would do this. Of course, the footage from this video is all faked and never really happened (according to the BBC). Maybe they will have another even bigger non-existe ... read more

 pugs driving cars

(in culture, humor, pets, dogs from 2023)

I stumbled upon these old photos and couldn't resist writing this. They were such GREAT dogs. First, it was Joey. Then C ... read more

 mike tyson quote

(in culture, quotes from 2021)

Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the face. -- Mike Tyson, former champion boxer ... read more

 activist recorded american tv 24 hours a day for 30+ years to protect the truth (documentary)

(in culture, movies-tv-video, research, documentaries from 2021)

The media's version of the truth, anywayBy B. N. Frank Activist Marion Stokes was so concerned about American broadcast networks disposing archives, as well as the influence that television was having on... ... read more

 the quest for a facebook replacement continues

(in culture, tech, internet, social from 2020)

I keep joining these other social networking sites, only to be disappointed. The main problem is they insist I upload my contact list, which I refuse to do. You're welcome. :) Maybe this one -- Parler ... read more

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 sister's birthday

(in family, holmes, birthdays from 2010)

Today's my sister's birthday. She must be having a good one, because she has not replied to anyone's email birthday greeting. The previous weekend was our nephew's 2nd birthday party in Smyrna. That kid partied until it was almost dark!I ... read more

 stay tuned

(in family, adoption, holmes, travel from 2008)

I hope to get the rest of the photos and videos on here, at least in raw form, over the next few days. I think I'm getting over my post traumatic stress disorder from the trip and can now face looking at the video again. :)Regarding Comme ... read more

 adoption videos

(in family, adoption, holmes, movies-tv-video from 2007)

OK, so it took a year, but here they are, finally:Part 1 ... read more

 preparation for our first trip to russia

(in family, adoption, holmes from 2007)

Tuesday morning. Everyone's still asleep except for me, the pug Joey and the cat Sunny. In preparation for our trip, I'm trying to reacquaint myself with the digital cameras, video and still. I would' ... read more

 parenting tip #426

(in family, advice from 2017)

Parenting Tip 426: When taking out recycling/trash, check its contents. I almost threw out our daughter's purse and wallet! parentingtips ... read more

 father's day

(in family, holmes, holidays from 2013)

I'm just writing this post to get something new on the blog other than that free ad for Windows 7. :)We drove up to be with my wife's side of the family today for Father's Day. An extra special treat upon returning home was to discover ... read more

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 garden improvements

(in life, health, food, home-garden from 2013)

I finished up my little rain barrel project yesterday. My three rain barrels used to be underneath the downspout coming off the roof. And that's great for catching the most rain, but the problem was that it is downhill from and not close ... read more

 emergency preparedness food storage

(in life, health, food from 2011)

Emergency Essentials -- Be Prepared Emergency Preparedness Food Storage. That's the Boy Scout motto, isn't it? Never hurtsBePrepared is the world's largest dedicated online ma ... read more

 good food, bad packaging

(in life, health, food from 2017)

Feedback I sent to Luvo (now Performance Kitchen):I love your frozen meals, but hate your packaging. Your microwave cooking instructions basically say look elsewhere on package. Why not put the instructi ... read more

 things to do in nashville

(in life, travel, usa, nashville from 2011)

Actually, in and around Nashville. Adventure Science Center ... read more

 new fence

(in life, home-garden, chores from 2009)

I forgot to mention I built a fence last weekend. It only spans about 12 feet from the side of the house to the retaining wall dividing us from our slightly-uphill neighbor. I've still got to cut a gate into it. Hopefully, I can pull tha ... read more

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 holmes family newsletter vol 6 no 2

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1994)

Falling Down a Manhole (can be quite painful and should be avoided)Vol. 6, No. 2, March 1, 1994 Michael moves!Michael has moved out of his mother, Lucy's, house. It's the first time I've been ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 4 no 4

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1992)

The Squeaky Sprocket Vol. 4, No. 4, May 11, 1992 The intelligent person's newsletter of choice. Riots in L. A. ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 2 no 7

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1990)

the NEWS Vol. 2, No. 7, May 1, 1990Editor's Note: We would like to apologize for that last issue, but we won't. We'd like to say it'll never happen again, but hey... Mike gets jobMike has taken a job as a process server f ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 4 no 7

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1992)

The Belching Frog Vol. 4, No. 7, September 16, 1992Thomas should like this name. Doug returns again O ... read more

 holmes family newsletter vol 2 no 9

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1990)

WORLD NEWS Award-Winning JournalismVol. 2, No. 9, June 14, 1990 Dad kills rattler! Special to the NewsBack from a week in the wilds of Arizona, Dad and Eleanor told of battles with man-eating coyotes and vicious attack- ... read more

holmes family newsletter vol 1 no 8

(in family, holmes, newsletter from 1989)

The Holmes Family Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 8, October 23, 1989 earthquake! Where were you when it hit?Don was just leaving his office on the 15th floor in downtown San Francisco when the whole building started to shake. I survived, said ... read more

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