I love having the time to research issues and make more informed decisions about the issues of today.I may get tired of offering my opinions on the controversies, I may not! I feel so free now that I no longer need to navigate within the institutional church. To serve in most mainline churches today means…
Clearly I am on a roll, in terms of stating my position on controversial topics. I have one more: Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obama Care. I have heard instene opposition to the ACA, mostly from people who don’t know anything about how it works. I never knew much so I didn’t offer many opinions.…
I wrote not too long ago that I am adapting well to city life. I forgot about rush hour traffic, until this week. I am babysitting my daughter-in-law’s injured dog and I come and go to her apartment according to normal working hours. I drive on I-90 for about 12 miles. Last night and this…
I was thinking the train stories might be getting old, so I took a break from them. However, as I was doing the train/Canada/terrorist research I came across something interesting about Canadian creativity in the marketplace that I must share. Canadian railroads are boosting their economy by attracting manufacturers to deliver their goods in Canada,…
A friend asked me how to find a camping spot. Questions like, are they on private lands?, what does it cost?, etc? I was tickled by the request to share my lifetime of camping experience and wrote an extensive return email. It occurred to me later that I should make a blog post out of…
Now that I am not officially employed as a minister in a church, my wild side is coming out. Yep, I am living sassy. Case in point: using LMAO. But LMAO is not the funny word I refer to in my heading. That would be the Word of the Day: Sniglet! I just love the sound…
One big hot topic today: refugees. So, I will be clear about where I stand. All of my relatives immigrated to the US. One family came over on the Mayflower (Curtiss Family). That is what America is and will always be- a land of immigrants. The influx of new blood with creative ideas and a drive to live…
History shows that terrorists are not likely to come into this country by hopping trains from Canada. That is not to say they don’t like trains. As I learned at nbcnews.com, “Surface transportation really has become the terrorists’ killing fields. They may not ride trains, but they would love to blow up passenger trains full…
While in Bonner’s Ferry, I van camped in the fairgrounds complex, off HWY 95. I have already written about sleeping near the train yard. I have not yet mentioned the morning walk that Tango and I took near the tracks. I noticed a number of box cars with open doors. Open box cars are rare…
Driving north on Hwy 95 I watched long, empty trains heading towards Canada. Most of the cars had Canadian logos, and a few had BNSF on the side. I also saw trains that must have entered through Canada that were now heading south. Because of my address drama and my research on the Patriot Act,…