California has a lot going for it. Namely, it has three of our offspring living there, as well as their three amazing spouses and, of course, two top-of-the-line grandchildren. What it doesn’t have is a postal service that is even close to adequate. Case in point: We once mailed a large box filled with wrapped […]
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Watch for a new book, by Scott MacDonald, Think Like a Dog, due out in 2017. Scott’s book, Saving Investa, is available on Amazon.com now.
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Please take a moment to also visit The San Diego Union-Tribune where this article was originally published.
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Once again, I have planted some hostas. Some meaning about a thousand. It’s not that I’m particularly crazy about hostas, it’s just that in our yard we have lots of shade trees. Shade trees and grass are enemies, thus there are lots of bare spots in our yard. Lots. Huge ones. And each spring, the […]
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Our five offspring, in addition to being the Medicine-and-Food-Expiration-Date Police, are also the Only-Healthful-Ingredients-Allowed-in-Food-and-Drink Police. Case in point: They roll their collective eyes at my preference for Miracle Whip on my peanut butter sandwiches. “Mom, Miracle Whip isn’t even food – it’s all chemicals!” Then there are their reactions to my choice […]
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Don’t you hate it when some research firm, probably with nothing better to do, determines that something you have loved for years is very bad for your health? I can just see a roomful of bored scientists sitting at a conference table and tossing around the names of various desserts, candies, whatever. And then, stroking […]
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State of CA Implements New Program for Dog Owners as published in Del Mar’s The Sandpiper. Please take a moment to also visit Del Mar’s The Sandpiper where this article was originally published.
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Rumor has reached me that cursive writing is being downplayed in our school systems. In some schools, I’m told, it has even ceased being taught. I wish that had happened a few years ago and I would have been spared a grade-school humiliation that has scarred me for life. The (Dreaded) Palmer Method We were […]
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My article, The Immigration Debate Has Been Going on since Colonial Times as featured on NY Daily News. Please take a moment to also visit NY Daily News where this article was originally published on 8 March, 2017.
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My article, Let’s Make America’s Factories Great Again as featured on Newsmax Finance. Please take a moment to also visit NewsMax.com where this article was originally published on 20 December, 2016.
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