I don’t know how I stumbled across this particular CNN website yesterday, but the headlines were disheartening: Fed sees more tough times ahead. The article goes on to say that the Federal Reserve sees both unemployment and inflation rising in the year ahead. That news does not surprise me, but it does discourage me. It [...]
I was listening to the news today about Ted Kennedy’s health. Apparently over the weekend it was believed that he was having a stroke so he was taken to the hospital. Once there, the doctors said it was not a stroke, it was a seizure. A little while later the doctors announced [...]
I heard on the news that a really bad earthquake (7.8) on the Richter scale hit China yesterday! What a terrible tragedy! Just the thought of being in an earthquake terrifies me beyond description. I don’t know yet how many people are dead/injured, but with a quake that strong, there must be a huge amount [...]
I was reading in some local newspapers that this is the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day! I went onto the Internet to find out more about it and discovered that Mother’s Day has actually been celebrated since at least the 1600’s. There is a good website with information about it at http://www.theholidayspot.com/mothersday/history.htm. Regardless of how [...]
I just heard the horrible news about cyclone Nargis striking a remote area of a country called Myanmar. I’ve read that there were wind gusts of up to 200 mph! I embarrassed to admit that I had never even heard of the country called Myanmar before this, so I went onto the Internet [...]
