By almost every measure, the Super Bowl is the single most popular sporting event in America today. More than 112 million people tuned in to last year’s game, making it the highest-rated television program of all time…. The National Retail Federation estimates that Americans will spend more than $12 billion on food, drink, game-related merchandise, and electronics — including 7.5 million new televisions — for game day. In all, 1.2 billion chicken wings, 79 million pounds of guacamole, 32 million slices of pizza, and 11.2 million pounds of potato chips will be consumed on Feb. 1, and it will all be … Continue reading How the Super Bowl ate America

Multnomah Falls, Oregon There is something mesmerizing about watching a water falls. This one in Oregon is perhaps the highest in America. Continue reading Falling Water…

I wonder what this structure has been during its life? Continue reading These Old Barns…

Yeah, as usual more guns are the answer…. but maybe the only one in this situation.  ;) Thanks Chan Lowe for giving me a chuckle today Continue reading A Snippet Here, A Snippet There…

I recently read an article in my small town newspaper that our local library is getting ready to sell a $2,000,000 bond to increase  and modernize its building space. This took me somewhat by surprise. In the age of budget cuts and downsizing it seemed strange that a library would get more funding when they say we don’t have enough to even fix our potholes on my county road. But then again bonds are something to be paid off in the future so the current public office holders don’t worry about them much.  In this electronic age where Wikipedia is a couple … Continue reading More Money for the Library When There is not Enough to Fix Potholes??

Concierge care was originally conceived before Obamacare, and it revved up in response to the Great Recession as an escape hatch for doctors fleeing the status quo. The existing fee-for-service system pays caregivers a certain amount for each test, diagnosis and procedure–which, according to critics, encourages overtreatment instead of preventive wellness care. Qliance, along with a growing number of similar operations, aims to be more than an escape. It seeks to be the answer to the quest of health care reformers: healthier patients at a lower cost. Fix the way primary-care doctors are paid, the Blisses argue, and we can … Continue reading Cutting Out the Middle Man….

Dearborn, MI – Hoosier Cabinet Indiana is known as the Hoosier State and the Hoosier Cabinet was once its most recognizable product. Hoosier cabinets were the baking center for many homes throughout the nation when bread was not readily available in … Continue reading Hoosier Cabinets…

This is a self-portrait of me and my hubby in downtown Louisville. It is untouched from the original   Continue reading Self Portrait…

One of my resolutions for this year is to be more tolerant of other people’s beliefs. I do believe that Islam and those who follow it have a right to believe what they want about God. I also know that all the nuts out there today killing in the name of Islam are only using the religion as an excuse for rationalizing their ingrained hatred of so much of the world. I believe they no more represent the billions of Islamic followers than the KKK represents Christianity. But the problem with that is very much as shown in Paul Combs … Continue reading The Silence Is Deafening…

Jersey Shore, NJ When most people think of New Jersey that think of the mafia and gangsters but when people in the area think of it they think of the Jersey Shore. The State has done a good job of … Continue reading Jersey Shore…

Our 2011 month-long visit to Eastern Canada was a very enjoyable one for us. We spent days traversing along the St. Lawrence Seaway. This picture was taken on our last day on the River. The next day we will start over to New Brunswick. We spent the night in a “don’t drink the water” motel on the seaway. I couldn’t sleep on the very lumpy bed so I took my camera and headed to the shoreline just as the sun was rising and managed to take the original of this picture. Continue reading St Lawrence Seaway…