http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:52:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en                 The year is 1909 - One hundred years ago.  What a difference a century makes!  Here are some of the U.S. statistics for that Year: The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2143 This picture was taken in 1918, when approximately 18,000 men were preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge in Iowa.   A gift from our grandfathers. http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2071            AKA, Everything's Amazing, and Nobody is Happy!  Here's a little dose of reality for you, and me (Re: The Transition Home).  If this poem doesn't give you a real world perspective, then check out the Conan "YouTube" clip below, contributed by my college buddy and former crew coxswain, Shahin ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2280    This may be too touchy-feely for some of you pinheads, but so be it.  It's all about the homecoming and, unless you've experienced extremely long periods without any real physical contact, you wouldn't get it.  But I know this as a real, human factor that totally affects a person's health ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2258               The Oracle of Bacon, as it relates to "Six Degrees of Separation," has really nothing to do with what comes next, UNLESS you can find the common link among the posting below: British soldiers arrived in colonial India wearing crisp white uniforms that turned light brown after being exposed to ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2221            Once again, my friends, I feel compelled to let someone else do most of my work for me, if you could call it that.  Must be part of my Warrier Transition training, that whole idea of a cooling down decompression campaign to help soothe the savage beast.  ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2202                  March 12th:  My dear friend from college, Cindy Toda, celebrates her birthday today.  I'm pretty sure she is still in her late 20's.  She has always had a youthful spirit and lots of energy, and I can't think of too many other people I know ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2123                                                  What Love means to a child.... Touching words from the mouths of babes when asked, "What does love mean?"  The answers they provided were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined:   'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.  So my ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=1966 http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2104                                                  A young woman was about to finish her first year of college.  Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other ... http://www.cindytoda.com/dustyboots/?p=2076