karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 17 - 10/23/2010 We boarded a small boat, there were four other passengers, one of them was a woman, I thought her to be quite beautiful but old (she was most probably was 35) the trip was going to take 18 hours; I was really excited, and could hardly wait for us to leave. The coast of the Pacific Ocean from Chile to Equator had an underground current that is called the Humboldt that is very rich with plankton, ... 1 response(s), 7 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 16 - 10/21/2010 It was strange to be in the company of my father, he really didn’t know what to with an eleven year old, he had two sisters but beside that I don’t think he had been around much. Comparing to eleven years old today, I was a mere , with no experience and much unsophisticated. He would ask me different things to what I had no answers, the poor man was totally out of his comfort zone, that was ... 3 response(s), 6 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 15 - 10/20/2010 When I was eleven I became a Musketeer. I had read Dumas book ‘The three Musketeers” and fell in love with Porthos, he was the blond handsome one in the middle of picture on the book cover, he had shoulder length blond hair that curled in the most endearing way, as far as I could see from the picture, blue eyes, a black hat with a huge fluffy feather, shiny knickers and white socks and always ... 8 response(s), 6 votes
bigblock 77 M 251  questions	Thanks to Miteehigh (from my blog) - 10/19/2010 I would thank miteehigh for his blog titled the perfect storm. He took the time to answer my question. I asked just how much the "rich" would have to pay in federal taxes to make him happy. He cited the tax rates used during Ikes term in office. I will round that to the nearest zero. How many of you realize that for every dollar they received in compensation 90 cents went to the federal ... 5 response(s), 8 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Lucid Dreaming - 10/19/2010 According to research In a Lucid Dream, you can be aware that you are dreaming. Lucid dreams give you the ability to control your own dreams and steer them toward the direction you want. In the lucid state, you are more willing to confront threats and as a result, become more self confident. Lucid Dreaming can be used as a tool for dealing with and overcoming ... 1 response(s), 2 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Far Reaching Political Consequences - 10/18/2010 Yesterday, a call on my Caller ID said "Newport Beach, California." It was from one of the Local Political Campaign Groups. "Would I be interested in volunteering?" Sure it would be fun - but work prevails. "Can they count on me for voting for so and so." Absolutely - I am certainly NOT voting for the other guy. "Cool" Okay so I ... 3 response(s), 2 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 14 - 10/17/2010 A couple of years passed, I would get an occasional letter from my mother, but beside that I never saw either parent. The other students would go home for the summer, winter and other holidays, I was left behind and by myself with the routine that the nuns had set in the beginning, but many times they did not bother to check on me if I was joining for Mass, and was able to sleep in. I had a ... 10 response(s), 6 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 13 - 10/16/2010 The nuns: Anyone that has gone to Parochial School will tell you that whoever said the priests and nuns were saints, are liars. We all know that living a celibate life does terrible things to the human species. In South America in those days it was a privilege to have a as a nun or a as a priest, they were looked upon with special respect and admiration. There were several reason these why ... 7 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 12 - 10/15/2010 My father was hired by an American engineer firm that had a contract with the Peruvian Government. They were building roads, bridges and dams, it was a massive program, my father was in charge of the dam, it was in the Andes about seven hours from Lima, the roads were hazardous, and very difficult to reach specially in the rainy seasons when the roads were washed away. The place was called ... 6 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 11 - 10/13/2010 We had been in the winter house about 6 months when I heard a lot of arguing coming from my grandfather‘s office, it was a voice of a woman, I thought that I sort of recognized it but could not identified it. Froken Aarup was sitting in her favorite chair crying, the door opened and my grandfather called me into the office, standing there was a beautiful woman, it was my mother, I sort of ... 7 response(s), 6 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Venus Retrograde - Past Lovers On the Horizon - 10/11/2010 From October 8 until November 18, VENUS will be doing a backwards dance to and from two of the sexiest signs -- Scorpio and Libra. Sex, intimacy, deep understanding, perception and romantic moments of all kinds will be presenting themselves Past relationships could make their way into your present, giving you ... 6 response(s), 4 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Our and Too Much Information???? - 10/11/2010 I remember when I was young woman, my folks expected my sister and I to be Virgins until we married. LOL! Considering the fact that we BOTH had BEFORE we were married, that didn't happen. My older boy was in the Navy and currently goes to Georgia Tech. There are things he does that I really don't want to know. I know my younger one has a major ... 3 response(s), 3 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 10 - 10/11/2010 My father: My father came from a very prominent old Swiss family with history going back many generations, his background was as different from my mother’s as day and night. Streets carry our name especially in Zurich where our family is from, books are written about our family. Now as on older woman I have been able to play homage to the wonderful people there were my ancestors... While the ... 4 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK, SECOND # 8 IS ACTUALLY # 9...my mother - 10/10/2010 I am loosing tract of the preset, since looking into the past. 1 response(s), 0 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 8 - 10/10/2010 MY mother: Most women are borne to be mothers, some are not, my mother belonged to the latter, somehow God had devoid her of the mother instinct. She was the youngest of the five siblings. I have been told that my grandmother spoiled her rotten being the youngest and the prettiest. Money seemed to have been no object in the family house hold, she spends the winters in the city and in the ... 2 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 8 - 10/9/2010 History of my maternal grandfather: My maternal grandfather was a mystery to us all, little was known about his family. This is what I know: He married my grandmother who was a widow, her husband that was quite a bit older than her; the marriage had been arranged by her family, was not a happy one and was childless. Her dead husband was the original owner of the winery, when he died the winery ... 5 response(s), 4 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	How do you pick a hobby? - 10/9/2010 That is the question. Is a hobby supposed to be relaxing? How do you know it is right for you? Is it something you can do any time you want 24-7-365? Mrsdinty suggested I take up a hobby for retirement. I saw a person making wine bottle stoppers, fobbs, bowls, etc, on a lathe. Mmmmm said I, that looks like a fun hobby. Sooooo I bought a mini-lathe, tools and stuff like that. Now ... 7 response(s), 5 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Testing for the Driver's License - Only in West Virginia - 10/8/2010 My older boy and step- were very eager to get their driver's license but my younger procrastinated. So recently I've been driving to West Virginia so that he could practice driving and test for his license. Last week he took the test. I had to laugh when I realized how stressed out he was about testing. He is a better driver than his two brothers and they both passed the ... 7 response(s), 5 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 7 - 10/8/2010 There some rather laud noises coming from the down stairs winery, lots banging, it was there when I went to kindergarten and still when I came back home. I asked the house keeper why they were making so much noise; she said they were knocking some walls down. I must be a little more respectful and call the house keeper by the right name, her name was ‘Froken Aarup’, and that is what I called ... 7 response(s), 5 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 6 - 10/7/2010 That fall (would be 1945) pulled wagons arrived at the apple orchard, many people had been hired to pick the apples of the trees, it was a very exciting time for my cousins and me, we were quite isolated out there in the country, so it was interesting to talk to new people. We had been told not to bother these people they were there to work, so we sat in the grass eating apples and watching ... 1 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 5 - 10/6/2010 My aunt was married to a sea captain, he was Flag Ship Captain for for the Danish-French Line, so he was hardly ever home, but obviously home enough for me to have four cousins to play with. One was older than me one same age and two younger. My grandfather had given my aunt a piece of land that was right on the water, there was a little building on it that had been roughly converted to a summer ... 3 response(s), 6 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 4 - 10/5/2010 There was wagon that was drawn by a that would come into the courtyard a couple times a week, bringing milk and eggs, during the war was this was restricted and people were only able to get small amount of these luxuries, obviously I had no idea what this meant, we had plenty of milk, cream and eggs. The house keeper would tell me the was called “prince” and belong to my grandfather ... 5 response(s), 6 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 3 - 10/4/2010 My grandfather was a big fish in a small pond, he was in the wine import and export, the real state consist of a block radius, the apartment was on the first floor, bellow that was the wine cellar that at one time had been part of a convent, it had long underground tunnels where the nuns would go to towards the chapel for mass, and had where their sleeping cells, now hundred years later my ... 3 response(s), 4 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK 2 - 10/3/2010 The train finely came to the stop I was to get off, one of the passenger, I think it was a woman, but her face is a blur, had a sweater on, she had been sitting next to me holding my hand, I remember clearly the brown sweater, it felt ruff against my cheek. Somebody opened the window an yelled something out to a person standing on the platform. The woman let me to the entrance of the train, a ... 2 response(s), 5 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	GOING BACK - 10/2/2010 As I was laying in bed last night thinking how far back I could remember from my earliest childhood. I have not made it a secret that my childhood and teenage years were pretty awful and very unhappy.. I must have been about three, remembering the sirens when blaring because a German airplanes were approaching, could hear terrible blast and see fire, remembering hiding under my mothers bed, or ... 15 response(s), 6 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	I AM JUST WONDERING (copy of my blog) - 9/28/2010 I see more and more blogs that "only friends of so and so may respond" ...So how does this work? Is it because you write a blog, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, they are not your friend, or you can't handle the answer or both?....I responded to a blog that one of the members said they were leaving and this was a horrible and very dangerous place, I, like others said I was sorry to see ... 3 response(s), 5 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Last Meal for the Dying - Willingly or Otherwise - 9/28/2010 I have been a care provider for persons who were actively dying and the inclination for the family is to feed them. It is usually not the right thing to do. Food is used to sustain life which is not the goal of a dying person. It can prolong death versus prolonging life. The last meal is usually something very simple. Cottage Cheese or Cream of Mushroom soup. ... 0 response(s), 2 votes
bigblock 77 M 251  questions	expiration of tax cuts - 9/27/2010 it seems we have been bombarded with talk about the expiration of the bush tax cuts, especially for the upper 2% of wage earners. if those were left to expire the added revenue to the government would be in the neighborhood of 14 billion dollars. i know that sounds like a lot of money, and it is a fair piece of change, but it is only enough to run the federal government for about 9 days. i would ... 0 response(s), 4 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	I'll Pray For You - 9/23/2010 Haven't been in church since I don't remember when Things were going great 'Til they fell apart again So I listened to the preacher As he told me what to do Said you cant go hating others who done wrong to you Sometimes we get angry But we must not condemn Let the good Lord do his job And you just pray for them I pray your brakes go out Running down a hill I pray and ... 6 response(s), 9 votes
karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	WANT TO LAUGH TODAY? (copy from my blog) - 9/22/2010 IT CAN BE HARD KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE AS A COURT REPORTER These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that ... 3 response(s), 4 votes