The hot button topic these days seems to be immigration - keeping everything (and everyone!) legal here in America, while allowing healthy growth to our population but blocking those folks from entering who seek to harm our citizens and way of life.  To be honest, I go back and forth on the issue myself... read more

To-date, I’ve moved 9 times within a 5-year span.  No, I’m not in the military, nor do I have record of evictions.  My moves have all been voluntary or work-related, and by now, I consider myself an expert in the art of packing, moving, and unpacking.  My last three moves have involved... read more

This article is part of a series of articles entitled “Immigration: My Perspective”.  To return to the main page of the series, click here. This wonderful country we inhabit had citizens long before the European settlers of yesteryear came stumbling upon the eastern shores.  So-called “Native... read more

This article is part of a series of articles entitled “Immigration: My Perspective”.  To return to the main page of the series, click here. Members of the Carpenter family, ancestors of my mother, Dianne Carpenter Lewis, left Southampton, in England, in May of 1638 as passengers on the ship... read more

Goodness I hope not! We had some storms roll through last night/early this morning. Didn’t think anything of it, nothing out of the ordinary. I’m driving along heading to my day at work excited about finishing up a project. I was also quite enjoying the light show in the sky quite a ways... read more

The much anticipated launch of the Nintendo Wii is right around the corner.  With a release near Thanksgiving, many are waiting with baited breath to see if this will cause the same kind of frenzy the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 brought just one year ago.  Will stores run out?  How necessary... read more

What an interesting day yesterday turned out to be at work. I am finishing up a big project at work (been working on it since about February) and just needed one more day or two and I would’ve been done. But my boss tells me first thing in the morning that they might want me to start on the next... read more

Making news recently is a crackdown throughout the state of Texas on drunk driving as well as the negligent and harmful behavior that can be punished under the offense of Public Intoxication.  While local and state police officers throughout Texas certainly to not want to infringe on personal rights... read more

Where has this ArsC editor been for the past two months since her last personal post?  My goodness…the list is long. In my professional life, I’ve changed careers.  Ending 4 years in the healthcare industry, I’ve moved to the airline industry.  I’m very excited about the change... read more

My gripe of today deals with the garbage that’s been hitting my email inbox in the last couple of weeks. It’s bad enough my bulk mail gets inundated with sleaze hawkers, but now it’s progressed to my personal mail, which is extremely disconcerting, since I like all new mail shown on my homepage.... read more