Earthquake at the beach

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

What a crazy day! It felt like we were in a twilight zone movie. The car alarm went off twice while I was trying to get the beach stuff out of the car trunk (I couldn't understand why). People were running out of their rented houses frightened because the houses were shaking. People were running off the beach scared. Two young teens were so upset I don't think they will ever go back to the beach.

One young woman said she was sleeping on the sand and it sounded like a train passing under her.  She couldn't get off the beach fast enough.

And here I am standing in the mist of this with my two girlfriends and we are just chatting and laughing and oblivious to the tremor.

Finally we had the chance to celebrate

Paula's birthday. 

We are only a few months late!

Her pina colda at the Captains Inn

was large enough to serve as the meal,

but she enjoyed and finished

her lobster dinner! 

Support Verizon's Workers

I support the 45,000 Verizon workers who are now on strike to stop the attack on the middle class.


Despite record profits, Verizon is refusing to bargain and is demanding that its workers add to those profits from their own pockets.

In the last four years alone, Verizon made more than $19 billion in profits and compensated their top five executives more than a quarter of a billion dollars. But apparently that’s not enough.

Now they want to outsource more jobs, including sending jobs overseas, slash sick days, eliminate benefits for workers who get hurt on the job and cut the healthcare benefits they promised retirees. And they have not budged.

Click on the link below to send a letter now to tell Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to stop Verizon's attack on the middle class and share his company's success with those who made it possible.

http://action.cwa-union.org/c/1153/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2657&tag=BSDAds_Google:Search_VerizonGreed

The Italian Elbow

An Italian grandmother is giving directions
to her grown grandson
who is coming to visit with his wife.
"You comma to de front door of the apartmenta.
I am inna apartmenta 301
There issa bigga panel at the front door.
With you elbow, pusha button 301.
I will buzza you in. Come inside,
the elevator is on the right. Get in,
and with you elbow, pusha 3.
When you get out, I'mma on the left.
With you elbow, hit my doorbell."
"Grandma, that sounds easy,
but, why am I hitting all these
buttons with my elbow?

"What . . . .. .. You coming empty handed?"

contributed by BD

Suggested Reading: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

This is an amazing book.  It is not a historical novel but it will enlighten you about the heart-wrenching act that took place in Nazi-occupied Paris on July, 16, 1942. I wasn't even aware of the role the French played in the heinous act until reading this book. Four thousand French Jewish children were murdered during the Vel’ d’ Hiv roundup, along with thousands of adults. You will definitely shed tears. The Holocaust can NEVER be forgotten.