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This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                   I stand with Ukraine 100%    

I thought of them as Calico 1 and Calico 2. These were two stray cats that, for at least the last 15 years, I fed twice daily on my front porch.. They were part of the “Front Porch Kitties.” None of them were mine, but all were in need of care. Eventually, things got really…

On several occasions, after giving a tour of the Cross House, my guests said: “You have OCD. Like me!” “What makes you think that?” “Because the house is immaculate. I’ve never seen a construction site so clean.” “Ahhh. But, that’s not OCD. That is learned management. Long ago I learned how vital it was to…

The other day, while washing the dishes, a thought occurred to me: A pattern in my life is that every decade, my life proves unrecognizable from the previous decade. Really, it is uncanny.   1968 I was eleven. Very scared. Living, obviously, with mom & dad and 3 siblings in our home in Westland, Michigan….

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                                     I’ve gone cold turkey regarding all news. I refuse to have more years of my life dominated by an…

If you want to learn about My Other House, click here.                         Working on my house every day, no matter how small or large the effort, is my own Project 2025. And, so far, I am very pleased. I find it diverting and satisfying….

To fully understand what The Other House is, click here.   Room #5 was built in the 1970s. It was a long room, a laundry, and Mrs. Lawrence slept along the north wall in a cot. After I moved in, in 1996, it became my workroom. Later, I expanded the house with several additions, cut…

NOTE: This is a very long post. Make sure you have the time. And some wine.     I have been hiding a house from y’all. It is the house I actually live in, in Strong City, 20 miles west of the Cross House. Upon buying the Cross House in 2014, not in my wildest…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                                                                    

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                                   I’ve yet to process one central question: HOW did Harris get about 14 millions fewer votes than 2020 Biden? HOW…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down                                                     In a previous post, I wrote: I 97% believe Trump (and Putin) will try and steal the election. I…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down…                                   There are polls. There are forecasts. These are two vastly different things. The former can often be wrong. Like with the much-vaunted poll-predicted RED WAVE of 2022. Which…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down…                                           In my previous post, I wrote about a stunning new Selzer poll of Iowa, which has Harris/Walz taking the lead. This article details why….

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down…                               Late today, a political nuclear bomb went off. A new poll in Iowa, from the gold standard of Pollsters, Selzer, has Harris leading Trump. Yep, Iowa. A state Trump carried…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                                 What’s particularly effective is that Trump has actually said all this bullshit. It boggles my mind that anybody would consider him…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down.                                     A few days ago my friend PK called me. “I’m at the edge of a cliff. Talk me down!” “What’s doing on?” “New polls show Trump gaining…