Love going to the Post Office on Tax filing day. Jammed, crowded, lines. Where was everyone yesterday? What do they think? Or do they think?
Category Archives: Laws
Life Lessons- cont…
The Sister Who Laughed the Hardest. Older, single women have always to be on guard and savvy so as not to be taken in by scams. People who should know better have fallen prey and into the scammers clutches. Younger Sister [YS] was upstairs in the house, when she heard the land line telephone ring. …
Jury Duty
Waiting outside the gathering room for all the persons called to report for jury duty. Rather than looking like a gathering of my peers, it looks like a post modern Ellis Island, with the same sentiments, Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming …
Subtle Suggestion
Oregon/Portland recycles. The large green bin on the left is for yard debris. The middle blue one is for plastics/paper/glass and the tinier third one is for household garbage. And they remain curbside in a lot of neighborhoods. Not particularly adding to the ‘curb appeal’.
Required
Twelve Years A Slave. Every person holding an American passport should be required to watch this movie and the painful history of this nation that it depicts. No one escapes.
January 1 – New Laws
From a list published in the Oregonian: Minimum wage to $9.10 an hour, tied to inflation. Driving: texting or talking on a cellphone while behind the wheel is a $142-$500 fine. Smoking while a child is in the car- first offense $250. Repeat $500. No teens in tanning beds. Those with PTSD can get …