One of my proudest accomplishments as a parent is raising anti-racist kids who are passing on the same values to their kids. I'm grateful to my parents who grew up in the Jim Crow south for not letting me be poisoned with race hatred.
Just attended a music recital for two of our grandchildren at an old Baptist church. I don’t think the pastor was shown the music choices since different kids played Taylor Swift, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and my personal favorite, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne.
The cupola atop the Moravian Church in Old Salem Village (which later combined with another nearby community to form the modern city of Winston-Salem, NC). -
My mom on the right. At age 70, she walked from the Irish Sea to the North Sea. She went on to complete the Camino de Santiago and hopes to walk across Bali in the near future.
If you descend to the floor of the Grand Canton, this is what awaits you. Wonder Woman sent me this photo on the day she completed the Rim to Rim challenge. She also remembers it as the day I watched two TV shows without her, something I will never live down, I guess. - https://amerpie.lol/2025/05/18/the-c... social.lol
What's your biggest tech regret? Mine is giving up my .mac email address, closely followed by getting rid of a fully functional Apple IIe just because I didn't want to make space for it.
The ever-so-apt term âsanewashingâ was born to describe what was going on, and the mediaâs role. Talk about a cover-up. Trumpâs rallies were exercises in lunacy, as he spun tales about sharks and Hannibal Lecter, rambling for hours.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden... social.lol
One of my current projects is culling out the thousands of photos like this one from my library. This was from a task I had to do regularly to PCs in public areas - deleting user profiles from Windows 7 & 10 computers to free up disk space.
Trying to come up with some original baby names (boy):WhammoSpudColonel Steve AustinPit Bull (Already taken, I now understand)Former Olympic ChampionVice LordTexas Hold 'EmRicky BobbyAny other ideas?
