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Sleep Seems Like Such a Waste of Time. My mother will tell you that I was never a nap taker as a child. I would kick, scream, cry, and stare at the ceiling waiting for nap time to end. Even in nursery school when we were to layout our towel on the floor for a quick nap after lunch, I... ( added 75 days 13 hours ago.)

My Children Are Leaving Home and There Is Nothing I Can Do About It Our second son just yesterday moved into his dorm room in college. He will be a freshman and start an adventure in meeting new people and working to find and define himself as a man. For weeks I had planned on loading up all he needs and... ( added 82 days 16 hours ago.)

Gluten and Celiac Disease: Is gluten free for me Gluten comes from the Latin word meaning "glue", which obviously causes a little concern when we realize that this is in our food. Gluten has been used in wallpaper pastes because of its sticky non water soluble properties. It also helped me to... ( added 82 days 18 hours ago.)

Movies: District 9 and the Watermelon Man In 1970 a movie titled the Watermelon Man was directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starred Godfrey Cambridge. The movie was billed as a comedy/drama and I remember watching it when I was 9 years old. The reason I remember it is because it was a... ( added 96 days 8 hours ago.)

I Hate Church Religion will always be a focal point of debate as long as man has breath on this earth. Ironically, when he or she no longer is able to express their opinion in the religion debate, they will know if they were on the right side or wrong side of... ( added 97 days 15 hours ago.)

Wasted Food, Wasted Money Americans waste and amazing amount of food. My limited research of this topic found that government agencies with the time to calculate the amount of food wasted estimate that 25-40% of all available edible food is wasted by producers... ( added 97 days 16 hours ago.)

Healthcare and Your Cell Phone The current state of the healthcare industry in our country seems to point to a very dysfunctional relationship between the healthcare industry, the government, and the people that require any type of medical service (which coincidently is all of... ( added 104 days 18 hours ago.)

Restaurant Nation Food is definitely a major focus of our lives. The food service industry has exploded over the last 20 years. Fast food and processed foods have made convenience eating an American past time. Restaurants have exploded accounting for an industry... ( added 104 days 19 hours ago.)

Farmers Markets- Tradition and Today Farmers markets have been in existence since man first harvested the bounty which sprouted from the hard work and labor associated with farming and living off the land. Taking the excess family inventory and selling it, or trading it for other... ( added 118 days 14 hours ago.)

Which Came First: Free Range Chicken or Free Range Egg? I am not a card carrying member of PETA nor am I a vegetarian. Steak, pork, lamb, chicken, fish and all other creatures considered food have passed my lips on the way to digestion. This will hopefully establish my credibility as a carnivore, and I... ( added 125 days 17 hours ago.)

Cancer Screening: I Don't Want To Be An Inspirational Story! Those of you who are over 35 years old may have noticed that cancer is more prevalent in your lives. Now, I do not know if cancers are stronger and more rampant today than they were possibly 20 years ago, I just know that I hear more about them... ( added 131 days 17 hours ago.)

Severe Nausea and Explosive Diarrhea The descriptive and slightly displeasing phrase that titles this has been stuck in my brain for over 20 years since I sat through lectures on Veterinary Public Health at Texas A & M University on my way to my degree in Food Science and Technology.... ( added 132 days 18 hours ago.)

If Charles Darwin was right, why am I bald? If you have been watching the news for the last two weeks you would have noticed the media attention given to the occasion of Charles Darwin's 200 th birthday on February 12, 2009. Charles Darwin was responsible for the research and writing of On... ( added 279 days 15 hours ago.)

Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino and the Heart of Prejudice Clint Eastwood is an iconic figure in Hollywood since his days on the television series Rawhide . Most of his characters were molded as the same decent man, haunted by a past, with a sixth sense in determining the character of others and standing... ( added 299 days 14 hours ago.)

That Peanut Butter Cracker Could Kill You! After over 25 years managing food manufacturing facilities, touring food manufacturing facilities, studying good manufacturing practices and all the minutia associated with the production of safe food I can relay to you how something like a... ( added 300 days 16 hours ago.)

Made in the United States with Money Supplied by China. Economic recessions have occurred 11 times in our country. The primary causes have been economic system failures, wars, and weather. I propose that the current recession is not caused by economic systems although we do hear constantly of the... ( added 307 days 18 hours ago.)

All Time Most Popular-What are we all Searching For? The internet has become an amazing point of information for all of us. Its scope and content are almost too much to conceive. Web sites are adding almost continually to this World Wide Web. It was started by a few, expanded by many, and yet owned... ( added 313 days 15 hours ago.)

Unemployment Compensation - An Employers Point of View Managing in four different states has given me the opportunity to represent companies in unemployment claims in those states. An unemployment claim is one in which an employee who has been discharged from employment or quit and has filed an... ( added 314 days 16 hours ago.)

Bailout Mentality- Financial Codependency-No Need to Teach Responsibility We work hard to teach our children responsibility and how their actions can many times result in consequences that they must endure. Responsibility for decisions in life is what we are taught from the beginning and hopefully we learn from our... ( added 356 days 12 hours ago.)

The "Perfect Storm" of Financial Failure Do you want to know who to blame for the recent financial troubles in the United States and the world? Find a mirror and look deeply into the eyes of the person looking back at you. We can all point at the greedy millionaires of Wall Street, the... ( added 1 year 42 days ago.)

Just Because a Freedom Exists, Should We Use That Freedom To Its Full Potential? Recently my father expressed a frustration as it relates to people speaking against and showing open disdain for the United States through their words, and their actions. He was not referring to other governments and those outside the U.S. but... ( added 1 year 115 days ago.)

A Geek in Love Lillian was her name and in 7 th grade she was the first girl that I had a chance to kiss after a junior high dance. My mother and father instilled in me the rule of respecting girls and never hitting girls. Well, that being the broad scope rules... ( added 1 year 138 days ago.)

Rebuilding Character and Integrity in the United States from the Bottom Up He was 4 years old and we were leaving our local Wal-Mart. As we walked through the parking lot with his little hand wrapped tightly in mine my son reached into his pocket with his free hand and pulled out a small dinosaur. Now, it was not unusual... ( added 1 year 138 days ago.)

Never Vote For a Religious Candidate When a Moral Candidate Is Available. Never vote for a religious candidate when a moral candidate is available. Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Martin Luther King Jr. are all religious men who I would not vote for in any election. I am... ( added 1 year 145 days ago.)

The Rising Costs of Food and Energy: When will Greed reach critical mass? Food and energy prices have been rising at an alarming rate over the last year. The increases have caused serious problems in the U.S. economy and the economies of countries throughout the world. With the exception of some princes in Saudi Arabia... ( added 1 year 151 days ago.)