ABSILVER's World

Are you with Me? I sit here on a Thursday, in Longview, Texas at the Silver Grizzly having coffee, wondering when we the People and all global citizens will say “Enough already!” First, a bit of history. The British citizens of the original 13 colonies fought the revolution to be freed from the oppression of a remote monarchy that ruled over and taxed the colonies while providing little value for those taxes. The colonists had no ability to represent themselves to the monarchy. Generations of immigrants risked their lives to cross oceans to gain religious and personal freedoms that this country's founding fathers encapsulated into the US constitution; a constitution focused on personal freedom, privacy, and considerable concern to limit the power of a government and the majority to oppress minority citizens.   We live in an unprecedented time in the USA, where the ‘president’ and many elected officials are more concerned about their own well being than that of th...

I have been a satisfied AT&T wireless customer since car phones were installed in your car.   When we moved, it  was easy to recommend them to Frank for our new home…   Frank and I decided about 3 months ago to make a move in our lives.   We sold our house in Austin and the plan is to split our time between closer to family splitting our time between Longview, TX where his family lives and mine in Savannah, GA.   The house is very nice, about 1800 sq. feet and close to Frank's Mom who has been very welcoming and helpful in our move. This email is about something simple, that went off the rails, all we wanted was to setup TV and Internet service at our new home in Longview.    In the last few years due to changes in homes from Florida to Austin, and now to Longview we have done this more times than most so you would think this would be easy?   Well, not so... we chose AT&T as what we thought we would be a reliable ser...

I have written starts and stops of a New Years blog. From the personal to the political and yet none of it was interesting enough to get out of my laptop or phone. My Top Ten lessons Learned in the Previous Decade. Nothing energizes my soul more than the sun rising over the ocean. Sunsets would come close but I am a morning person. My road traveled has led me back to Savannah and Longview . After living up and down the east coast and central Texas, we are home. A cat has shown me more about the importance of actually meeting diversity in person. I didn’t like cats cause I never had one to love. Quality and results of good work are more important to me than titles and money. Top ten days start with a walk early in the morning, plenty of good coffee and hanging out with Frank and our four legged family. Nice it happens every day. I have traveled around the world and lived near some mighty pretty places, but Tybee in the winter and Savannah are right at t...