Did you know the smallest room in your house can be the most dangerous room in your house? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year about 235,000 people visit emergency rooms because of injuries suffered in the bathroom, and almost 14 percent are hospitalized.
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Home from Home: Service Stars
“Service Desert Germany” – unfortunately that is one of the self-bestowed nicknames of my mother country. At least it was true in many ways when I lived there. Who knows where it derived first or whence? I guess it all started when Germany recovered from World War II. At first, pretty much everybody was lending […]
Alan Archambault is Swimming Upstream
Alan Archambault – Distinguished Historian and illustrator – is SWIMMING UPSTREAM with Dorothy Wilhelm this week. Archambault has written many excellent history books but his true love, he says, is illustration and he is most proud of his sketchbooks: Northern soldiers-a past redrawn.
Home from Home: Crafting
In a little over a month, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving again, and then the final rush into Christmas preparations begins. Which means writing dozens of Christmas cards and sending them out in time before the cut-off date. Which means that now is the time to start crafting Christmas decorations and Christmas cards. The latter […]
Westside Story – Lakewood Franchise Opportunity
WARNING: After reading this edition of Westside Story, some readers will feel they have wasted 49 seconds of their life.
Westside Story – A What If Tale?
My sister, Peg, and I traveled from Sea-Tac Airport in separate airplanes to reach the Montreat Conference Center, about 2,778 miles southeast of Lakewood, Washington near Asheville, North Carolina. The two of us met up to attend a 5 day Road Scholar photography class.
Westside Story – There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
My title is an old saying. Even if it is true there is no such thing as a free lunch, I am here to tell you there is such a thing as a free dinner. Maybe I just created a new saying.
Home from Home: Maintenance
Let’s face it – maintenance is not my strongest talent. That’s probably because I come from a family that never owned a home (landlords took care of maintenance) and that was rather on the academic side of life. Also, there are quite a few regulations what you are permitted to maintain or repair where and […]
Westside Story – Just A Thought
If you are easily offended by the things I say, imagine the things I hold back.