The prior post just cut off right in the middle of a sentence, then simply resisted even being corrected. Will things be any better this time around? Let's find out right now. I really hate to give up the blog. It's my way of communicating with friends and family in different time zones all around the world. But if you can no longer find it here, then I will actually have given up. Or is it time now to launch a brand new blog, version 3?
I won't attempt to again post the item about a baby being born in an Italian village, after 30 years without any babies being born there. That's what seems to have messed things up last time. If interested, you might look it up yourself.
We had left off with International Health Service of Minnesota, an all-volunteer force that I have worked with as a volunteer interpreter many times. IHS has been going to Honduras for 40 years now and is definitely worthy of your support. All contributions go into purchasing medications and equipment. Volunteers pay all their own travel expenses. I have very much enjoyed working with IHS medical services and also with their dental clinics. Medical brigades are actually fun but also a lot of work, requiring considerable ingenuity because supplies are so limited. Strong comaraderie develops among volunteers.
IHS has another Honduras mission scheduled now for February.
I have gone to places I would never have seen without IHS. I've also volunteered in Honduras with Doctors Without Borders, another medical non-profit, and with several dental clinics. I've helped suture wounds and deliver babies ss well, though in the Peace Corps, we weren't allowed to render any direct care (partly because we might not be capable and also to prevent lawsuits against presumed American deep pockets). Since I have been going to Honduras on my own, I have done whatever I feel capable of doing, especially when no one else has been available. But now at age 87, maybe I am done.
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Fox, Trump teases marble armrests for Kennedy Center: ‘Unlike anything ever seen before.'
In a post shared to Truth Social on Friday, Dec. 26, the president, 79, featured Trump armrests. Trump has posted photos of several white pieces of marble, which he has said were being considered as armrests for seating at that performing arts institution in Washington, D.C.
"Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center," Trump wrote alongside the photos. "Unlike anything ever done or seen before!"
This is in addition to renaming it the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Marble armrests actually don't sound very comfortable. How about just regular upholstered armrests?
Trump is still out there trumping, but not quite as much as before. He doesn't look like he is enjoying himself anymore, even when he happens to be awake. Is he getting tired of being president? Is he getting tired of life? Many of us are getting tired of having Trump as president.
This question indicates that Trump himself is getting pretty weary of being president and might actually prefer to quit. Then he can snooze to his heart's content and play golf whenever he feels like it. What else does Trump enjoy? That's about it.
If Mr. Trump should actually retire, then we'd have JD Vance, age 41,as president, who could then run again at least once, maybe even twice.
Instead, what about Kamala Harris or even Gavin Newsom? Don't we Democrats have some better people? I'd really like to see a woman president at long last. Even Honduras has had a female president. So what about a Harris/Newsom ticket? (My son, looking over my shoulder here now, is shaking his head.)
Rebel GOP Senators Fire Warning Shot at Weakened Trump.
Some Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues in a pointed release as his polls have plunged.
CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
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CNN, How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee Buzzard’s
mother in the child’s ‘calculated’ killing
A California mother named Ashlee Buzzard has been accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard. The mother, Ashlee Buzzard, pleaded not guilty to the charges during her arraignment on December 26, 2025.
Her daughter's remains were found by accident by a couple taking photos in rural Utah.
It looks like this mother, after killing her daughter by shooting her in the head, then went to
great lengths to cover up the crime and to disguise herself with wigs and makeup. She hid the remains in a remote area of Utah, never expecting them to be found.
Relatively few murders are committed by women, most often of an abusive male partner. A mother might also kill a newborn baby that she never wanted or because of post-partum depression soon after a birth. (I've experienced post-partum
depression myself, very scary.) Or a mother might kill a seriously
disabled child, but it would be very rare for her to kill an apparently healthy, normal 9-year-old after having raised her to that point. (The girl's father had died in an
accident years ago.)
While California authorities have indicated that they won't seek the death penalty, the mother, Ashlee Buzzard, is apt to be shunned by other inmates during her lifetime in prison. They certainly will know why she is there and may avoid even associating with her. (She might actually prefer solitary confinement.) There are not many lifers in women's prisons. Why did she do it? Does that even matter now?
Ashlee Buzzard appeared in court with her hair dyed. She had also used various disguises and wigs.
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This bust of
Queen Nefertiti (1370-1330,BC) now resides
in a Berlin museum. Egypt wants it back.
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Starry Night" by Dutch artist
Vincent Van Gogh, was painted in 1889. It's on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
That's all for now, folks. Please keep in touch, as it looks like we may be able to keep on going here after all.
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