There's gotta be millions of articles about relationships. Books, too. If you are thinking about writing a book, put "relationship" in the title and you will have agents beating down your door! Instead of "How to Fix a Toilet," title you book, "How to Have a Good Relationship With Your Toilet While Fixing It!" See what I mean?

Mogama's Random Rants

In the early part of her Tea Party Convention speech in Nashville, Gov. Sarah Palin said "The soul of this movement is the people." She called on Tea Partiers to "put your faith in ideas", not in a king or queen, or "any charismatic guy with a teleprompter." She doesn't want the Tea Party to be defined by one leader, yet it appeared Mrs. Palin wouldn't mind taking the reins of the movement. ...

Messages from Outerspace

Not much goes on in our neighborhood on a daily basis. Neighbors leave to do their shopping, come home, put their cars in their garages and get on with their lives. Most of our direct neighbors are retired. Some of them are old enough that they formed many of their habits in the era when you got up, opened your garage door and left it up all day long. I guess it served as a message to your...

You think Cryptids do not exist in the Asian part of the world? Well, think again. There have been reports of gigantic creatures found in the southeast region of the continent of Asia. One such account is that of the Nyalmo, which is purportedly living in the mountain range of Himalayas.The sighting of a Nyalmo was first documented in the Himalayan Range in the year 1937. There was a small...

My View

Call me old-fashioned, but I would not go on some of these sites, such as E-Harmony in order to be romantically linked with another. I consider connecting on one of these sites as a desperate measure. (I realize I will probably get some angry comments and e-mails, but I just have to be honest with my opinion) I have heard too many horror stories about these "connections." Having said that, I...

The Bodacious Buddhist

Pick up any newspaper or get online and you will find endless stories of thoughtless people, people who, rather than being thoughtless or without thoughts, are actually filled with thoughts - thoughts about themselves! So much so that they can't see what is directly in front of them, and being blind to the immediacy of the moment, they make stupid mistakes or act selfishly. Thoughtless people...

Many U.S. states have now passed, or are in the process of passing, laws that prohibit any of their citizens from being forced to buy health insurance. This, of course, is in response to the federal government's pending healthcare legislation which includes mandatory health insurance for every American. These states, including my home state of Virginia, are so proud of themselves for their...

Serendipity

During our January thaw last week, The Frontiersman was putting new light bulbs in the pole lamps at the front of our cottage walk when I opened the front door to let him know the can opener wasn't working. As he walked back to the house, he said he noticed the rain gutters above the entryway were full of leaves, so he got a ladder and dug the leaves out. From that vantage point, he observed a...

It's been almost two years now since Cody got so sick and had to be put to sleep. He was 14 years old at the time, so it wasn't really a premature death. And if the measure of a life is how much one is loved and how much love one has given, then Cody's life was a spectacular success. He came to live with us after being threatened with a trip to the animal shelter. His former owners had...

Mangosteen is a tropical fruit that is native to Southeast Asia and has been used as a medicine for many years. It is not related to the mango. This fruit and its benefits have caught the eye of the rest of the world in the past decade. Countries all over the world are examining the mangosteen fruit and its medicinal properties. The world of science has found xanthones in the rind of the...