Usually coffee shop talk on Monday mornings this time of year is focused on the weekend’s football results. “Hey! How ‘bout dem Cowboys?” is, at least occasionally, overheard in many Texas coffee shops.
But, not these past two Monday mornings. It’s been more along the lines of “Hey! Did you see what the stock market is [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Wall Street and Washington Don’t Listen to Bible as Debt Continues to Build
Posted in Financial Survival, Political Survival, Spiritual Survival on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Media Editorial Boards Buy Up Presidential Votes – But At What Cost?
Posted in Political Survival on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
True to form, senior citizens turned out in full force on the first day of early voting in Texas in what has been billed as an “historic” election with the presidential battle between McCain and Obama at the top of the ballot.
As I stood in line to cast my “secret” ballot (voters on both [...]
Retirement + Grandchildren = One Great Life
Posted in Personal Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Caution. This column may not be appropriate for reading by wives of “too busy” retiree husbands who don’t have time for the grandchildren.
For many male senior citizens today, their earlier vision of “retirement” hasn’t quite worked out the way it was expected to.
In the long run, that may turn out to be a blessing in [...]
Pearl Harbor Day Remembered in Seguin, Texas
Posted in Political Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you recall the 1325 Crow Creek Massacre in present-day South Dakota? How about the 1565 Spanish Massacre of French Huguenots at Fort Caroline in Florida? Maybe the King William’s War from 1689 to 1697? Perhaps the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins’ Ear with Spain?
You don’t recall those? Then, how about the American [...]
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Posted in Spiritual Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
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The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
© 1995, 2008 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
English approval: 5/08. 35602
We, the First Presidency and [...]
Alaskan Bush Country Thanksgiving Feast
Posted in Wilderness Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was about one month before Thanksgiving in the late 1960s. I was living in a one-room cabin with sleeping loft on Kodiak Island, Alaska and I was wondering how my “sourdough” (long-time Alaskan) friend, Jon Tollefson, was doing at his two-and-a-half-room cabin along Question Lake near Talkeetna some 439 miles to the north.
Jon [...]
Prop 8 Backlash – Support for Mormon Church
Posted in Spiritual Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prop 8 Backlash Is “An Outrage That Must Stop,” Group Says in Support of Church
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SALT LAKE CITY 5 December 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed appreciation today for a full-page advertisement in The New York Times that decries the “violence and intimidation” directed toward the Church because of its [...]
Election 2008 Thoughts
Posted in Political Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last time I visited with Mrs. Rumbleheart, my fifth-grade teacher, she had already surpassed “senior citizen” age—but, she never would fess up to her birth date.
That was not uncommon half a century ago when many subjects were “never” discussed in public. Like many personal matters, to ask a woman’s age was simply off limits.
Today, [...]
Santa’s Prayer on Christmas Day 2008
Posted in Spiritual Survival on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Santa’s prayer overheard earlier this Christmas day:
Dear God. I hope you’re not too busy to hear my Christmas prayer this year. I know I haven’t prayed as much as I should have ever since I had that darned knee surgery. But, if you don’t have time to listen, I’ll certainly understand.
Not to complain, [...]
Let Survivaltimes roll!
Posted in From The Administrator on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As December 2008 comes to an end, the beginning of 2009 looks bleak at best in the USA and around the world. Survivaltimes real purpose for being is primarily a result of the devastation experienced by many peoples around the world during 2008–but, our focus of assistance and guidance will be on those American citizens [...]
