Sit down, let me pour you some coffee, let's chat, let's get to know each other.
I really like the picture I posted today. Back before the age of the 'disposable spouse' when couples didn't split at the slightest thing or setback.
I grew up in a time when my mom was home after school, when you knew someone was there to ask 'how was your day?' Now I know in this modern era, in order to just place food on the table, mom probably has to work. A shame, really, but then it is a shame when being a mom pays no retirement benefits either. Sux all around. But, hey, parents do what they can.
The Internet is all buzzing about the Boston Marathon bombing. Hell, it's gotten so I'm leery to shop the malls anymore. I do make it a point to not go there during the Christmas rush. Probably just as well, the mall only brings out every materialistic bone in my body anyway. Best not to be tempted by all that glitter and glitz. But, the bombing. For many years other countries have lived with this kind of thing. I suppose Americans sat all smug feeling it never happens to us. I think all that has changed now though. We now see and feel, how the 'other half lives.'
Americans always felt American middle class would always be safe too, So much has changed in recent years. So many things we always felt were the other person's problem. Well, here those problems are. At our own door step.
Well thanks for stopping by. Here have another cup of coffee before you go.
Can you believe how much this liquid costs now at Starbucks?
I'm trying a new font here, it looks good and seems to work well.
My new blogs will now, for a good while anyway, consist of small town, one in particular in NY, and the pluses and minuses of small town living in NY.
Living in America, almost anywhere, can be very pricy anymore, thanks to Corporate America and wayward politicians who care for nothing but money, the people be damned is their motto. So small towns all suffer from:
A) Lack of jobs
B) Lack of decent stores
C) Lack of decent services of most any kind
Sure, sure, plenty of die hards will try to defend small town America, but they are delusional and would defend most anything. Nice try.
This is the Penn Yan blog, of my own making. I know from where I speak because I've lived in this town for about 35 years. It is a pretty town nestled on Keuka Lake and would be much more pleasant if not for the bad Chamber of Commerce, lack of services, not great medical emergency responders not very good fire responders. Good luck if you need either one in a hurry. You will be SOL.
I'm going to talk about all that is wrong in this small town. Call me cynical, but I call it realistic and reporting all I have observed in 35 years. Yes, it is a quiet place to retire, but if you need emergency medical help, you best jump in someone's car and head for the local hospital and hope for the best.
Small towns do not have to be provincial in their thinking or their ways, but I guess no one told this to anyone in Penn Yan because they are as provincial and narrow as they come. Stay tuned for more.
