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Donald Trump is Exactly what America Needed, but Not Why You Think
The scenes playing out across the country are historic, they are also terrifying. America is regressing. Over 100 years of social, political, legal, cultural and economic progress are being systematically turned back. Our history is being erased. And yet, as bad as it is, as bad as it is going to get, I believe that…
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Staying at Fort Wilderness was on our bucket list. After waiting 37 years we finally made it a reality.
Our first vacation anywhere as a young couple was to Walt Disney World in 1988. Since then we’ve been many times, both before children and then with our son. But there was one Disney experience we’d never been able to enjoy. On our previous Disney World vacations we’d always flown. It just wasn’t practical to…
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I was unemployed at age 46, it took six months to find a job. It was scary. I ended up taking a low level office job and it turned my life around.
Like millions of people I had a daily work routine. I started each morning checking my emails. Reading each one, responding to some, and filing all of them to specific folders. Then I’d jump on the phone for several hours. After a brutally exhausting day on the computer and making dozens of phone calls, I…
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I thought my first trip to the Louisiana Bayou would be a journey back in time, it turned out to be a winter wonderland.
The Louisiana Bayou is a place of legend and lore. A primeval swamp more associated with monsters than the modern world. Many who have never been most likely get their preconceptions of the Bayou from movies and books. My vision of the bayou came from Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This indoor dark ride…
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RTO mandates are not about efficiency, they’re about control. I know because I was a corporate executive.
I can’t think about my time in the corporate world without remembering Office Space. The 1999 film which satirized the work life of a typical corporate software company. I just thought the movie was funny. That was until I entered the corporate work force and saw themes from the movie play out in real life….
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While family estrangement is on the rise, Yale psychiatrist urges people shun Trump-voting family members. I already did.
This past holiday season millions of American’s traveled to be with family and friends. It is a tradition almost as old as the holiday season itself. Whether grandma and grandpa are flying to see the grand kids open their presents on Christmas morning, or college kids heading back for a home cooked meal. There has…
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My mom was a Conservative, I became a Liberal. How our relationship would be different today.
In public my mom was a prim and proper Christian woman, no foul language and never a disparaging word about anyone. But once home you would be shocked at the number of racial, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and pejorative terms this proper ‘Christian’ woman knew. Even misogynistic. Here was a woman who had worked in the defense…
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Here are the top Three RV Resorts for Camping near Disneyland
ravelers heading to the Disneyland Resort for a vacation will find over a hundred hotels and resorts to choose from. Everything from budget motels up to deluxe resort properties and everything in between. You can even stay on the Disney property. But if you are arriving in an RV your options are much more limited….
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John Fetterman is wrong. Rooting against Trump isn’t rooting for the nation to fail, it’s rooting for Democracy to win.
Just two days before Christmas, John Fetterman, the Democratic junior senator from Pennsylvania, said in an interview with ABC News that “If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation.” Frankly, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Fetterman isn’t my favorite senator. To begin with, I do not understand why he…
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Before you rail against Disney for re-theming Splash Mountain, you should ride Tiana’s Bayou
This Christmas we made our annual trek to Disneyland. As former long time Southern California residents and annual pass holders we’ve been to Disneyland literally hundreds of times. We moved in 2021 to be closer to family but have made an annual holiday tradition of treating the kids to a Disney Christmas vacation. Whether you’ve…