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                                      On Friday the 13th, I was doing some shopping and got tired walking partway around the mall, (something that seems to happen a lot more often now).  The mall, or even the smallest portion of it, zaps more of my energy than …

I was looking at an old posting that showed Ellen DeGeneres with former president, George Busch, watching a football game.  They looked relaxed and friendly, just like old friends would look, hanging out together. The photo brought to mind the year 2005, when Hurricane Katrina …

Four women testified in this week’s impeachment hearing, culminating with the testimony of Fiona Hill, a former top Fiona Hill, a former top White House expert on Russia. Ms. Hill was called to testify as part of the investigation into whether Trump abused his power …

I was reading over some comments made about what happened in Charlottesville last year. Some of them expressed surprise at the notion that the Nazi platform is alive and well today in the U.S. even though Adolf Hitler is dead. These comments made me wonder; …

                                 Evolving Halloween Thursday night about six-thirty, as soon as it was getting dark on my street, I set out my three carved jack lanterns strategically, so they would lead the trick or treaters off the sidewalk and down the path to my house.  …

                                  How would you like to cook in a state-of-the-art kitchen with all stainless-steel appliances, surrounded by granite counters and glass accessorized cabinets, and later eat off of expensive china plates?  How would you like to live where there is a fully equipped gym, bathrooms …

Mexican Food For Real I just finished reading Ally Wong’s excerpt from her new novel, that has a chapter on how to judge a good Asian restaurant.  Everything she said made a lot of sense, and I started thinking about how you pick a good …

            Brown Paper Bags and Old Soda Bottles A while back, my daughter installed a new application on my phone and explained how all I had to do was type in the address of where I wanted to go and it would give me step-by-step …

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POSTING Monday Morning Group Francine Rodriguez francinerodriguez@author.com     I think it was some time in 1996, at the waning end of the surge in the crack epidemic in South Central.  It was the point where rehabs had opened their doors up …

|by Francine Rodriguez    Today the crack smokers are getting older.  Getting high in the open air of South Central is not a common sight anymore, and the behaviors that sometimes accompany it have for the most part, gone underground.  I’ve been carrying this memory around …