My Inner Author

Forgive the length of this note, as it does cover the 14 days of our wonderful Paris/Italy tour this summer. It is simply intended to be a trip diary to help me remember what we saw, what we did, and some of the many details of our visits. 6/13-6/14 Travel day(s). How often can one watch the sun set, wait a couple of hours and watch the sun rise, all on the same flight. Not to often, and yet, we did. Travel east to Europe proved brutal for me. Even in the Business Class cabin, with Benadryl to help, sleep proved elusive. At least good sleep. So our travel day found us in Paris, exhausted and spent as we had departed the US at 5pm and found ourselves in Paris at 9am the following morning. Of course we did gain 6 hours in the air. Apparently planes fly along the east coast to the tip of Canada and then strike out across the ocean and for our flight, flew between Ireland and the French coast. Customs proved much easier than I expected, and the bags were waiting when we clea...

Today the Obama Administration, in conjunction with the Congress has announced the creation of the new U.S. Afterlife Status Service. This new government agency has been created to help all Americans, and the hordes of undocumented aliens presently living in the United States, with reaping the best possible benefits in the afterlife. "For far too long, Americans and human beings the world over, have had to abide by archaic rules and laws of the many various religions to achieve a state of heavenly bliss once their time on earth expires," said President Barrack Obama. "This has created an unfair system. People born into faithful families have an unfair advantage over those who are not. People who concern themselves with selfish pursuits such as their salvation and accountability for their life choices are unfairly rewarded for such selfish behavior.“ “Far too many people tend to be excluded from the full benefits of the afterlife simply because they chose to worsh...