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I am sick and tired of ignorance!!! Why is it so difficult for people to stop being ignorant and start being educated? And I'n not talking about what we learn in school, but about what idiotic things our parents, grandparents, great grandparents...etc., have brainwashed some of us to believe. I'm talking about learning about your fellow man and that just because someone is a different color,...

Cyber Friends are just everywhere, and you can pick them according to so much more than what they look like. You can judge their writing skills before you invite them into your life. You can see what THEIR friends look like if you want to, what clubs they belong to or what they ate for breakfast which is always a prerequisite for me. I am deeply involved in a sociological study of the...

Recently, I was telling my mother about my scariest Halloween moment. She questioned whether she would have let me venture out on my own at the tender age of 6. I was with a friend from the neighborhood and we were in the same class at school, so I wasn't really alone. I told her, sure, why not? You left your windows open at night. During hot summer months, the only thing that separated you...

As I set off for my "after work" walk early this evening, I didn't know if I felt more like Red Riding Hood or the Pied Piper. These jaunts are taking on a slightly surreal quality, and at times are absolutely HILARIOUS.For starters, my traveling companions are a fifty-something pound dog and a six pound housecat named Meatball. I've written about both these guys before, Lucky is the border collie...