This is my first post to a new blog. So, why a blog? I need a way to express opinions, ideas, daily events that works better than email or Facebook. Not that I'll quit using either of them. But Facebook is just a sideline, and opinions by email tend to create problems -- people take things personally (or, in a few cases, I have taken the replies personally!).
With a blog, you can come here or not, your call. Whoever you are, the comments are not directed at YOU. You can reply as and if you wish. I just hope that any replies stay rational -- I'm happy to consider other opinions, maybe even change my mind -- but I don't have much patience with the "sloganeering" and name-calling that seems to be in style these days.
Fair warning -- I can see two sides to just about any question!
Adios for now, RI
It's Me
- J B LJOY
- SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, United States
- I am an ancient Texan who has lived in Australia, the UK, the Philippines and South Africa. I have retired twice, first from petroleum engineering and then from the US Foreign Service. I am a struggling Presbyterian. My wife is French-American. I am an independent politically, with views a bit different from most of my friends and family; a fiscal conservative but socially pretty liberal.
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