David's Blog

I just saw this "news" report, and it reminded me to be grateful for our weather here in Florida.  It was posted this past Saturday by a lady in Janesville, Wisconsin and said in part:Here's some happy news: The owner of a 20-by-30 foot driveway has shoveled 8.9 tons of snow this winter. No kiddi...

A christian radio station in the far-northern US has a "Call-in Confessional" show. One man called in and said that he was driving his wife's car to work. All of a sudden, a car behind him started laying on the horn.  He looked back, and the guy just kept honking. The guy kept getting angrier and...

Many people in the USA believe our Constitution has a "separation of church and state" clause.  They think anything involving the government, whether that's law-making or law-enforcing, education, funding, voting, or anything else, should have nothing to do with anything of a spiritual nature.  B...

I keep meaning to post things on my blogs, but frequently get stymied by my internal Editor-Proofreader.Having been raised to be hyper-critical of everything, always looking for errors that need to be corrected, I find myself (in the words of one of my college professors) suffering from "creative...

Did you ever say something like, "I didn't do that on purpose!"  If not, have you ever heard someone else say something like that?Hearing that statement made over and over again got Kevin McCarthy thinking, "Why not?  Why don't we do things on purpose?  What would it mean to live on-purpose?"As a...

This morning I saw this blog entry, and it sparked my imagination.  It got me thinking: What's interesting to me?  And what might others find interesting about me?Certainly, people come to ActiveRain for all-things-real-estate.  But that's hardly enough, unless you're really, truly, JUST interest...

They announced a 3/4% drop in both the Funding rate and the Discount rate prior to the opening of the market.  And the prognosticators are discussing the possibility that when the Federal Reserve meets for their regular meeting next week, they might drop rates another 0,25% as they wrap up their ...

Here in Central Florida the housing market has been flat to struggling.  Home prices have dropped a bit (about 6% over the past year), but nothing disastrous.  Many sellers are holding out for top dollar, hoping to get as much or more for their home as they paid for it a year or two ago.  Many bu...

Here it is, my first blog posting.I plan to keep this short as I write (briefly) about my goal(s) for my ActiveRain webpage.  But we'll see how it goes.  (And you, the reader, can judge immediately how long this really turned out!)With so much negativity "out there" - in the media, in the market,...