Commentary

For the past several months I have been taking a stroll down Memory Lane. Everyone knows about Memory Lane…it’s that place you go when you hear a certain song, find a lost picture or read an old letter. House renovations are continuing and I am trying to de-clutter my home. As I go through boxes of old newspaper, pictures, maga-zines and foot lockers of “stuff”, I have found some real gems.

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Wingate Dowden was work-ing with the Louisiana State Po-lice, Troop H.  He was assigned to Sabine Parish. Hodges Gardens scheduled an Outdoor Pops Concert by a Dixieland Jazz Band and the Centenary College Choir for June 19. 

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Some weeks are better than others.  I should have known last week was going to be “one of those weeks” when a bug flewup my nose.  I know it came out, but I swear I could feel it up there.  I blew my nose repeatedly…but no luck.  My nose itched for several days, until I had something more important to think about.

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Every moment of every day, all of humanity is held hostage by the nuclear nine. The nine nuclear nations are made up of the P5 per-manent members of the United Nations Security Council and their il-legitimate nuclear wannabes Israel, North Korea, India and Pakistan, spawned by the mythological theory of deterrence. This theory has fueled the nuclear arms race since its inception wherein if one nation has one nuclear weapon, its adversary needs two and so on to the point that the world now has 15,700 nuclear weapons wired for im-mediate use and planetary destruction with no end in sight. This in-action continues despite the 45-year legal commitment of the nuclear nations to work toward complete nuclear abolition. In fact just the opposite is happening with the U.S. proposing to spend $1 Trillion on nuclear weapons “modernization” over the next 30 years, fueling the “deterrent” response of every other nuclear state to do likewise.

Opening packages of food is a major deal at our house. We simply can’t do it right!!Growing up, I can remember improperly opened boxes of crackers and cereal, and other items, although they were clearly marked how to open them. Well that has been carried over into my house, too. In fact, I’ve become very careful how I open a box or pack-age. Usually there are instructions or perforations indicating how the manufacturers think the consumer should open the package. I have had the habit of grabbing something off the shelf and ripping off the top of the box. (I think its hereditary!!)With the onset of arthritis in my fingers, it gets harder and harder to unscrew lids or open packages. Potato chip bags have even become a challenge!!

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