Who doesn't like a good stroking?

Most people don’t understand the art of massage and every individual is unique in preferences of massage type and tissue depth. There’s a reason that professional masseuses [generally speaking] have the customer fill out a questionnaire prior to their massage. The first massage I ever...

Rocky ate monkey butt today

Rocky got a new toy today; a little stuffed monkey made by Kong. I knew it would happen. I knew it wouldn't last a day. However, it lasted longer than I thought with how he murders toys. My Rocky ate monkey butt today. He began with the tag with the washing instructions, figured out there was...

6-year-old girl killed in vehicle crash in Waterford Township

“Police say moments before the crash happened, they were getting calls about a Sonata driving recklessly in the area. The crash is under...”

GoFundMeforRileyandNick I'm sharing this because this is a friend / coworker and he is the father in law and grandfather of the people that were killed by a drunk driver in the accident of the seeded article. I don't have expectations; however, if it's possible to help this family, that would...

Congressional Business Office

“As defined by CBO, a proposal would achieve near universal coverage if close to 99 percent of citizens and noncitizens who are lawfully present in...”

Sometimes I wonder if people research the government office websites, which are available to the public and aren't simply documenting a story. I don't care what news publication or media it is, there's usually a specific agenda. However, if you research these government office websites, you'll...

Frustrations and stress

My stepdad has been in and out of the hospital and I've been helping my mother with many random things. My mother in law is now going through radiation after the mass in her lungs was biopsied and was found to be malignant. We're strapped for cash for several reasons; albeit not one is...

If you were in politics...

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future... Oscar Wilde”

If you were in politics, would the public learn something dirty about you or your past? I can most certainly say that I have things in my past that would shock some. While I won't divulge everything, because I have no plans to go into politics, I will say that I smoked a LOT of weed in high...

Things you used to do as a kid...

“Don't grow up... it's a trap”

What are some of the things you loved to do when you were younger that you can't do now... or haven't done in a really long time? Baseball. I always loved playing baseball [not softball] with other kids in the neighborhood. I'd have loved to play baseball in high school, but because there...

Are movies in theaters losing steam?

“Waiting until the movie starts to eat your popcorn, hardest thing in the world.”

Are we going to start seeing movie theaters fade away like the drive-in theater? While yes, there are drive-in theaters sprinkled throughout the country, they're scarce, far fewer than decades ago. They've made a slight comeback with COVID and sit in movie theaters closing for a while....

Time Travel: If you could, would you?

“It appears that both sides of my family bucked society in some way.”

If you could and would time travel, what era would you travel to and why? My answer to that would be I’d like to check out the early 1700s through the early 1900s in Southeast Michigan to meet my mom’s side of the family and then the same era but the UP of MI to meet my dad’s side of the...

Tracing Ancestry and Surprising Finds

“I find it astonishing that they never left this area...”

For several years, I had an ancestry.com account; well, I suppose I still have the account, but after spending a better part of a decade and paying $150-$200 per year for access to global documentation, I decided to halt my research. I can still contact people and I can still view family trees /...