Appearing on the NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said a tax surcharge on wealthy Americans is one of several options under discussion in Congress to help pay for overhauling the nation’s ailing health system. That didn’t exactly come as a news flash. The “tax the wealthy” option has been […]
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Back in June I started posting excerpts from my new book and this latest installment is a continuation of the chapter dealing with one of our our family vacations. To read what precedes this click HERE Everything was peaceful for an hour or so, then the kids started squabbling, which soon deteriorated into full fledged
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A teenager wrote a letter to the Dallas Morning News recently defending the crassness of the new movie, “The Hangover”. She wrote, “In today’s American society, which is anything but conservative, it takes more than a dry innuendo to stir up a laugh. Vulgarity is natural and expected. If people are offended, they can choose
I always wanted to be able to say that, “Maryann Miller is away from her office.” Somehow that makes me sound so much more important than the person who leaves the room to clean a toilet or feed the animals. But I digress. I’m out of my office today because I’m doing a guest blog
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For years now members of my family have been telling me that I am a great deal like my paternal grandmother. I knew there were similarities, but the real connection didn’t hit me until this morning, when I came in from working in the garden and had a biscuit for breakfast. Let me explain. My
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More and more authors are turning to Internet marketing for their books. They are doing virtual book tours, blogs, maintaining Web sites, and whatever else they can do to increase visibility on the Web. This is all well and good, but according to Don McCauley at Free Publicity Group, many authors miss a major component
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The last of my company left today, so now I have no more excuses for not working. Darn. I sure was enjoying myself. I guess that is one reason that I like having my birthday on the Fourth of July. I was playing the “It’s my birthday” card all weekend until one of our sons
Today the United States is celebrating a birthday, and so am I. The country is 233 years old, but I won’t tell you my age. For many years I thought all the parades and fireworks were in my honor, and it was quite a let down when I found out they weren’t. To read all
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Some of the readers here who have been following my excerpts from my newest book, expressed a desire to know more about our vacation, so here is the next segment of the chapter: ROAD TRIP – Or Are We There Yet, Papa Smurf…. To read the first part of this chapter, click HERE By the
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I received the I Never Tell A Lie meme from Helen Ginger at her Straight From Hel blog. Here are the rules: Sometimes you can learn more about a person by what they don’t tell you. Sometimes you can learn a lot from the things they just make up. If you are tagged with this
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