We have at least 4 cable channels dedicated entirely to children's programming. I have stacks of cool kid's videos; Bob the Builder, Bear in the Big Blue House, SpongeBob, Winnie the Pooh...All selected for content and "age appropriate".... Guess what he wants to watch? Shrek2. For 3 days now, it's been Shrek. If I put it up, he climbs up and finds it, if I turn it off, he turns it on. He'll wait patiently for it to rewind, and watch it all over again.... and again.... and again. NANNA! A...

I do. So sick in fact, that I tend to have little fits and go around deleting all my posts. I have little patience it seems, or maybe I just lack self discipline. On my other blogsite, I once was something of a celebrity. Ranking in the top ten for every category I wrote in, and in the top five for two of those. I was witty, entertaining, and well liked among my fellow writers there. I have little taste for politics, and less for current events, so it was rare that I became engaged in c...

I dread the day that I come home to find Wal*Mart milk in my refrigerator. It's bad enough that "Canada Safeway" is American owned. I'm the person who buys "Yellow Box" pasta, salad dressing and dish soap, but pays a dollar extra per dozen to have actual farm eggs. We're the Mega-LO-Mart generation. We feed the starving children in Africa through our purchases of sweat shop sweats, sneakers and christmas ornaments. Even the "brand name" designers are selling out. You can buy "Signat...