Fellow Americans:     After viewing Galveston and surrounding areas in Cheryl Photonut's newest photo album, and reading her blogs lately, I am appalled.  This many days later, there is so little res

   Thanks to all for all the good wishes and prayers!  As for my daughter and family in Houston, they got by with fallen tree limbs and loss of power.  They do, however, have a generator to keep the

   Here we go again!  Hurricane Ike is the largest hurricane I ever saw, bigger than Texas, which is very darned big.     My main concern is my daughter and family in Houston, and my younger brother

 *  My daughter and her family in Houston cancelled their trips to prepare for Gustav, by boarding up their lovely home, packing necessities for evacuation, and prepare their pets for leaving, too.  D

A few news items:    *Did you hear that Julia Child, Theodore Roosevelt's son and Ernest Heminway's son were all WWII spies for the OSS, the early version of CIA?    * Congratulations to all the Ame