Archive for May, 2008

GOING GOLFING? Be sure to take your gun by Jean Snow VanOrden

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Long hours of daylight are giving us joyful insomnia. In the last two weeks the landscape in Eagle River has gone from barren to lush green. Along with leaves and light, the bears have returned from their long sleep.
I like to hike, walk, ride bikes and wander around the Alaskan countryside in general. [...]

DON’T TEE-OFF THE BEARS

Friday, May 30th, 2008

WE THE JUDGES by Jean Snow VanOrden

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

We the people of the United States of America in order to form a more perfect union . . . uh oops
We the judges of the United States of America . . . .
The people of California spoke plainly, marriage should be defined as being between one man and one woman. The [...]

Breakdown by Willard Snow

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The secular Humanists have totally triumphed in California. The notion that homosexual unions should be sanctioned and approved by government when there is no benefit to the society from those relationships is very short sighted. We will continue to see the culture slide into chaos as alternatives to marriage become the “rage”.
The purpose of all [...]

ScribeFire

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I got this great add on for FIrefox anyone out there who is blogging should have it to. You probably all knou about it and I am the geek who just discovered it. ScribeFire https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730#reviews

BLUE IN THE FACE by Jean Snow VanOrden

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I should be raving about the California State Supreme Court ruling on marriage. But I’m really all talked out and reasoned out about this issue.
Whether you believe in God or not, some things just don’t make sense. Some things are not about rights but about responsibilities. Some things are less rights and more a [...]

THE IRONWOMAN BESIDE THE IRONMAN by Jean Snow VanOrden

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Pearl Snow first saw her Ironman in church. Some weeks later, she ran into him at the drinking fountain at the White City dance hall in Ogden, Utah. Dad had vowed not to marry before he was shipped out. He didn’t want to leave a wife behind while he went off to the war in [...]

THE ORIGINAL IRONMAN: a tribute to my favorite mechanic by Jean Snow VanOrden

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

We went to see Ironman on Friday night. Pre-opening buzz and reviews were almost unanimous in their praise. We weren’t disappointed. We thoroughly enjoyed the movie and its anti-cliche hero,
In the eye-popping scene where robotic hands sheathe the hero in a red titanium/gold alloy suit, we see a dazzling display of gears, cams, bolts and [...]

EMBATTLED RERUN: WORK YOURSELF TO DEATH by Jean Snow VanOrden

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I need to make something clear: the following post is one I wrote back in August of 2007 early in my recuperating process after radiation treatment for tongue cancer. As I was going through my files to make sure I had hard copies of all my posts and journal entries for last year, [...]