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All the cars I've owned before... (Part II - 1983 Ford Escort)
We bought this car from a bank in 1987. Like the rascally Rabbit, it too had its issues in the beginning; it would always cut off if I didn't warm it up properly and then the engine would flood sometimes when trying to start it. Here also began the habit of leaving headlights on. A kindly teacher at my school probably saved my life because my mom ( Read more... ) -
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Anyone who has read my journal can see from my biographical posts that I lived a fairly typical teen life; weekend fun, school issues, bending an occasional law. I did a lot of crazy, wild, stupid stuff when I was younger, things I would not want my kids doing and certainly not things I condone ( Read more... ) -
Water Country USA - 1987
Jean and Jenny ( Read more... ) -
You have GOT to be kidding me!
Man Charged in Wrong-Way Wreck in U.S. Illegally.I'm actually rather proud of myself. When the wreck was first reported and the driver's name came up, I thought, "There ARE some Hispanics here legally and some natural born citizens have Latino names, so I will reserve judgment ( Read more... ) -
Immigration: Then & Now
Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register (but, big surprise, not printed ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkin Carving
Last night was another first at the homestead ( Read more... ) -
All the cars I've owned before (Part I - The Rabbit)
It started in November of 1985. We purchased a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit. Broke down constantly at first. My mom called it a Monday car, as in, it was built on a Monday, when all the factory workers came in still hung over from the weekend. The sunroof barely worked, one of the vent windows fell out, the tape deck played at about quadruple speed and ( Read more... ) -
He is God and I am not
Someone recently said that if Jesus were anything like me, she would not follow Him.
Well, I'm here to say that He is nothing like me.
He is without sin and I am not.
He is perfect and I am not.
And, most importantly...
He is God and I am not.
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives ( Read more... )
