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Food & Drink > Food & Drink (Other) How to choose a grocery store: 46 of 46
I can describe the process by which I have selected grocery stores from which to do my most satisfactory shopping. Living in Las Vegas in the U.S.A. at this time, I have found the Trader Joe's market chain to be a very reliable carrier of quality and affordable foods. I first heard of this store through "word-of-mouth", as n... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Economic Values Why welfare isn't working: 24 of 24
What ever happened to ACCOUNTABILITY? A welfare family in California whom I knew consisted of a woman and her three children. During the four years I knew these people and visited with them, I never once noticed a scrap of food in their refrigerator. The mother babysitted to earn extra money, but it all went on her smokes (s... More..
Jobs & Careers > Getting Ahead Readers share their best job experiences: 11 of 11
After getting out of the military, I took several jobs over a period of time, until taking a position which carried me through the years to retirement. I began work with one of the "in-between' jobs in June 1985. This was with the nation's first airport shuttle service, begun in 1968 by a hotel bellhop and his friend. They h... More..
Travel > Transportation (Other) The state of hitchhiking in America: 9 of 9
My hitchiking experiences are limited to the summer of 1970, at the age of twenty. Thousands of people my age were hitchiking all across America - not a few of them to escape the military draft by hitchiking to Canada. I travelled from home in California to relatives in Chicago, then on to New York City, the Deep South, and ... More..
Autos > Driving & Safety Life and death on America's highways: 7 of 7
I appeared before Las Vegas judge Michael Cherry a few weeks after my near-death experience at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard & Blue Diamond Road on the south side of Las Vegas in early 1994. Rainbow Blvd. is a major northwest-to-southeast thoroughfare which terminates at Blue Diamond Road, which itself is a major com... More..