Icewind's Ramblings

I tend to pack light and without much fuss. I am quite the opposite of every woman who takes care to fold things just right, who plans out an outfit for every day that she will be away, who wishes she had brought just a few more things. The baggage I carry in actual bags is light indeed. What about that other kind of baggage? I’d like to think I do not carry around a load of emotional baggage, but honestly, I believe the emotional baggage I have gets stored away most of the time because I am just too busy doing other things. I do think that most of us have things that can cripple us or stop us in our tracks if we dwell too long or too hard on them, and so I have found that ignoring these things has worked for me (which tends to point towards the fact that my emotional baggage is not huge. I have only the stories of childhood, teenage, or adult trauma, you know the normal stuff). That is not to say I do not have days when I drag out the bag and sneak a peek every once in awhile...

and others from my wife’s friend Amy . A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa . "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said; "Wedding Cake." A Montana Highway Patrolman pulled a car over on I-90 near Bozeman . When the Patrolman asked the driver why he was speeding, the driver answered that he was a Shrine Clown with a specialty as a magician and juggler, and he was on his ...

Here is one for you, Remember everything you do has consequences! Heat got you down? Here is why there were some brownouts and blackouts in parts of the country. Was your area one of those? This may be why! How do I get through the days here in Alaska ? Here’s how . . . Ice