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My family is pretty sparse. Our get-togethers are small and, though I love Christmas I don't really feel that it's Christmas we're celebrating when we get together. It's more like we get together and have a meal sometime during the week of Christmas and we exchange gifts that, for the most part...

I love winter in Georgia. With the exception of the north Georgia mountains, we get very little really bitter weather. Some years it's not even cold enough for long enough to kill off the bug population, so then we have a lot of ticks, flies and mosquitoes in the summer. That hurts. We need a...

As if he hadn't already been through enough, the story makes the news. Poor kid. At least his grandmother knows how to love him.

I haven't been exposed to nearly as much information in the NY chokehold death incident as I have been to the Ferguson incident and so I haven't really formed an opinion on it. From the little I have heard, I'd say it sounds like the protesters of the choke hold incident may well have some more...

Vehicular manslaughter? That is so sad for all involved. I'll bet your officer friend would have done anything he could to help the son's situation after the arrest, too. Which was all that could really be expected of a friend. Sorry he probably didn't get the chance to do that.

Oh, was that ever a bad situation. How did you end up drunk with a friend who was sober but had no DL? Had your friend had a DUI? Anyway, it was a good effort on your part. A good decision to put off driving at that point, but if you really couldn't walk and you put off driving for only an hour...

You say there are many police officers but they just turn their heads at traffic violations which are glaringly obvious to others? Wow. But you said, also, that you're in Orlando, where there are a lot of different people. A lot of different kinds. Maybe the police officers are hesitant to...

I'm not a police officer, but I'm pretty sure people usually know when they've had too much. I'll even go further than that and say that most times they know before they take the first drink that they're going to be legally drunk if not completely snockered before they are through. Whether or...

I imagine there is a huge turnover rate on any police force. I would think that a number of people would get involved in police work only to find out that it was not what they expected it to be--whether it would be way more than expected in some way or purely a let-down, I don't know. Maybe...

I was standing in line at a tag office one day when two men behind me began discussing why one of them had quit police work. I couldn't help but eavesdrop a little bit because it was interesting. The main reason, it appeared, that the man had quit police work was purely burn out; but he also...

I'm sure this has more to do with the ever increasing push for gun control than it does with any concern over frightening children. All the same, if children are taught to fear guns no matter the circumstance it's going to make it mighty tough for them to know who the good guys really are.

If I'd been you I think that might have made me feel pretty rotten. I'm not so sure, though, that it would have had much effect on the child. It could have, I suppose. It depends on the child. How sensitive the child is, etc. I see a lot parents saying things to their kids today that would have...

That is an excellent question and one that concerns me as well. I run every day (or nearly so) and I'm always alone. I have a horse farm and when I am home I run on the back pasture. It is secluded, surrounded by trees and woods on the three outside perimeters. I feel safe there and I know that...

Paranoid? No. I can't say that I do and I'm not really sure where you're coming from with your question. Do you mean that you fear someone hacking your account, stealing your identity or stuff like that? Or is it more that you fear relating your thoughts and feelings in a very public way even if...

Of course they don't have the mental capacity (or the emotional ability) to look after a child. They are children themselves. The government has an idea that it can raise your kids better than you can, but what the government is doing through the public school system is producing a lot of very...

I'd find it rather hard to not look at any lights for ninety minutes before going to bed, but it is for certain that light disrupts my sleep. I keep the room I sleep in as dark as I can get it. Which is pretty dark out here in the country when the moon isn't huge. I do,however, tend to look at...

Well, we have public schools and the media in collusion here, teaching and showing things that encourage an interest in sex at an unnatural age. Then there is the prevalence of drug and alcohol use; which, I believe is escalating among women in general, as well as in both sexes at younger ages...

I have an off night now and again. Like when the moon is full and the extra light bothers me. Or in the summertime when maybe I'm not quite cool enough. Most nights, though, I sleep very well. My husband, however does not sleep well at all. Which means that I often end up in our spare room...

One morning I was in a car with my mother and a mutual best friend, one of the funniest people I have ever known. She is just a naturally funny person and is always doing things and getting into situations that just make you want to roll. Anyway, it was early that morning and as we were going...

Mercy. I believe I'd be afraid to be a patrol officer, too. You know, when I was a kid in the sixties there were no police women like there are today. There were meter maids and women who wore the uniform (skirts, back then) and directed traffic or worked in an office, etc. There were no...