The crazy lady strikes again for Tuesday, September 5, 2006

This next series of entries - interrupted occasionally if a breaking story or something else (current news, of course) grabs my interest - will focus on New Age and holistic-health topics, written from my personal perspective as a Catholic Christian. Right now, I'm working on research for a series of articles I plan on writing for Constance Cumbey's consideration. I'm taking her up on her suggestion - which she made in a telephone conversation with me today (I called her on her cellphone) - that... Sign in to see full entry.

The other day (as of this writing), five members of the Ramirez family, and the child of a family friend, died in a house fire. There is no dispute as to the cause: The family has been using candles to illuminate its apartment since May, when Commonwealth Edison (our Chicago-area electric company) disconnected the family's electrical service. One of the candles ignited something flammable (I'm not sure what, because news reports didn't specify what got lit up), and the entire apartment went up... Sign in to see full entry.

Does anyone remember the Kellogg's cereal called Raisin Squares? This cereal was actually a package of miniature shredded-wheat biscuits (they would have been called mini-wheats had they been frosted) with actual raisins imbedded in them, instead of some sort of raisin flavoring being sprayed on the shredded wheat. (That's what they do now - there's a mini-wheat cereal out now with cinnamon flavoring sprayed on the shredded wheat, made by Post. Of course, we are all familiar with Frosted... Sign in to see full entry.