Category: Letters to my descendants

Letters To My Descendants. I thought it would be a neat idea to write directly to my descendants. I’d love it if my ancestors had written something to me. A direct message that transcends time and death. You may not yet be alive but I’m thinking of you and wanted to say hello.

LTMD – Money vs. Life

Money cannot and does not buy happiness. This is something people in society today will post on their Facebook, print t-shirts of, proclaim from the mountain tops;  it is also something that the majority of them do not really believe. At a recent event some ladies were speaking about how they admired another woman who…… Continue reading LTMD – Money vs. Life

LTMD – Immigrants and walls

The current Republican presidential candidate Trump has been spouting off a lot recently about building a wall between the USA and Mexico and suspending immigration from certain countries that ‘have a history of terrorism.’ *I wrote a better post on this subject years ago called Arizona Immigration Law – A Unique Perspective.  But you know…… Continue reading LTMD – Immigrants and walls

Lapham’s Quarterly – Go for the older woman

I’ve decided I really need to write down my favorite passages from Lapham’s Quarterly; this one comes from the winter 2009 volume – EROS.  It is from Benjamin Franklin concerning the advantages of dating/marrying older verses younger women.  Seems like sage advice to me: You should prefer old women to young ones.Because when Women cease…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Go for the older woman