Back from Chicago/Hillsdale and busy getting packed and ready to leave for ITALY…  lots of intimidating thoughts on the verge of embarking on such a big adventure, but I’m trying to keep smiling. In the future, check my photos page (there is a link above too) for pictoral updates!

Leaving for Chicago tomorrow earrrrly in the morning and I’m very excited because it means a weekend full of seeing folks I haven’t seen in far too long. This is my last day of work at Cherokee Family Practice, but for some reason it doesn’t feel very different. Probably because…

13 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes and 52 seconds … … getting nervous.

The contemporary American government is socialist, communist and fascist … and anything BUT a theocratic republic (as it was founded). What is to be done?  

Well, I was going to rant and rave about the idiotic, socialistic and communistic aspects of the public school system in America, but after 10 straight minutes of the phone ringing off the hook at the office, I seem to have lost the will to do so. Don’t worry, it…

Now here’s a scary thought . . . .I turn 20 in less than 15 days. Years ago, this used to be the age that, once attained, meant almost full and complete grownupness (everyone knows that’s a real word–and there’s no hyphen between grownup…all one word…say it real fast). Now…