& FUN WAS HAD BY ALL ...

Did you go to the Apple Festival? Always a great opportunity to see folks you haven't seen in a year!

For those of us who choose to live here in Clay (as opposed to those who can't seem to find a way out), it's also a measure of our roots. We started out as cranky little kids, then became the crazy, giggling, oh-so-cool teenagers ... now we bring out chairs to sit in front of the courthouse & listen to music that hasn't been popular for 25 years & talk about how good the band is, while watching the cycle continue. What's funny is that the oh-so-cool teenagers today have no idea how much cooler the generations before them were. ;)

Remembrance - Commemorate or Instigate?

Tomorrow, Americans are asked to fly their flags in honor of those who died at the hands of terrorists 6 years ago. Businesses are asked to fly their flags at half staff. A moment of silence will be observed at 8:46 a.m., when the first plane slammed into the Twin Towers.

Personally, I think flying your flag only on patriotic holidays and "days of remembrance" is the equivalent of going to church only on Christmas and Easter. You either mean it or you don't.

What do you think? Do you think that our need to honor & remember helps us heal & honor our dead or do you think it just gives future terrorists more options to choose from when picking the perfect date to attack us again?

Do You Give A Rip?

that ...

... Jerry Lewis introduced a "family member" as "the illiterate faggot" on live, national TV during his annual telethon?

... a "prominent" business man in Clay is an alleged cradle-robbing pervert?

... it's been almost 6 years since terrorists slammed into the Pentagon, the Twin Towers & a field in Pennsylvania & we STILL don't know where Osama bin Laden might be?

... it's almost time for the Apple Festival?