Rant | Bonnie B. Matheson - Part 7

What can be done about the young people growing up today?

December 1, 2018 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 1 comment

It is absolutely unbelievable to me how impaired young people are today. Political correctness gone wild … I am so tired of being called a racist, homophobic, Nazi, Elitist! I am not any of those things. But, I do say my truth. It may be different than someone else?s truth because of their background or indoctrination! The fact that our colleges and universities have become so expensive and yet they are turning kids against their grandparents is shocking!! One of…

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The Lesson of the Pear Trees

September 23, 2018 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 2 comments

Years passed at Heathfield, happy years for the most part. My love for the house and everything in it grew a pace. The land and the trees and the bountiful flowering bushes, lilac and snowball and Japonica. I adored the place. That first summer I would walk around it just saying silently “This is OURS, this is MINE.” It was a dream come true. Why had I delayed moving to the country so long? I had been afraid. Afraid of…

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What Really Died at Auschwitz?

October 8, 2012 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

The bulk of what you will read here today is from an email that was sent to me recently. The actual article was written by Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez in 2011, but it is even more relevant today. Printing this is meant to be controversial, but not intended to be mean-spirited to any whose religion is mentioned here. Just think about what it says. Are we better off if women are denied education? I am working with a young woman from…

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Thoughts on pro-Obama video

October 7, 2012 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

I think this is a good example of how Obama tries to divide the nation according to “we and they” . He is cherry picking results and leaving out any culpability on the part of Democrats. (or the Whitehouse) Here is the video to watch for yourself: In this little video Obama’s very first point is about how prosperity was NEVER a result of Big Business’ s success. And then he mentions (positively) Henry Ford who was one of the…

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June is Busting Out All Over

June 14, 2012 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

In June there is hope and joy and abundance all around us. The green grass, leafed out trees, flowers blooming and the birds and bees flying and buzzing around with renewed energy. Yet the country is caught in the grip of a stagnant growth cycle and not much is moving. In spite of all the beauty surrounding us, the people in this country (USA) are fearful for the future and uncertain about what will happen next. Are we going the…

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Passwords and Such

April 6, 2012 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

One of my major websites was hacked. Do you know how much trouble that can cause? So just in case you have not changed your password lately, or have not updated WordPress, continue reading to become inspired to do so. In some ways it is like having your house robbed at night while you are sleeping. You wake up and things are missing or changed. Yet you had no idea there was a problem until it was too late. The…

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Frustrating yet heartening

May 13, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 2 comments

I have spent literally hours and hours on the phone with a lending organization this week. If I had had any idea what a lot of time would be wasted I might have invested in earphones. When shopping for a mortgage lender to help buy a building you don’t think in terms of being sold later to another company. But that is exactly what happened to me. The new company took over the mortgage on November 1 2010. On December…

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Are we green yet? What exactly does that mean?

April 6, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 5 comments

I loved this article. http://recycledpromos.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/we-didnt-have-the-green-thing-in-my-day/#comment-11 Too bad it is anonymous. The author writes of a time during which I grew up. She points out that life itself was “green” at that time. When a thunder storm was coming (we knew because we heard the thunder in the distance, not because of weather alerts on TV) I was sent inside to help shut all the windows. The windows were all wide open because we did not have air conditioning. We cooled…

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The Case for Home Birth

March 24, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

A home birth is the best place for a calm birth. In one?s own home that sense of being in a foreign place is simply not a problem.? After all, this is ?home?.? In a hospital there are different smells, different sounds, and a large number of strangers all intent on their own agenda, not putting the pregnant woman first.? There are noises and loudspeakers and pinging machines and germs in the air and on every single surface. Those in…

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Mothers and Daughters

March 18, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 3 comments

I recently found myself in a discussion with several women about how to treat our grown daughters. One of the women complained that her daughter was manipulative. This made me pause to think about how I felt about this. That seems to me to be a word that many people use about parents or children along with the phrase ‘passive- aggressive’. So here are some of my thoughts on this emotional issue. First of all, ALL CHILDREN ARE MANIPULATIVE!!! (That…

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Drinking diet soda is not a wise option

February 10, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 2 comments

I read an article about a new study that says daily drinking of diet soda may lead to higher risk of stroke or heart attack. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41479869/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/ I was surprised to see some comments on Facebook about this article that showed surprise. ?The surprise came from the claim that caramel coloring might be part of the problem. ?I concur. ?But any drink called diet is dangerous. ?There is just too much information suggesting that artificial sweeteners are neurotoxins. ?It is not…

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Misleading headlines

January 21, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

The Daily Progress, the newspaper for Charlottesville VA, ?shows a front page headline that reads “Flu covers all of Va.” ?Something about that seemed strange to me, because I have heard no one complaining about the flu. ?On reading the article it became clear that there is not much flu in Virginia, but they wanted to be sure people realized that they could still have a flu shot. According to health officials “flu-like illness is at low levels across the…

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Thoughts on Judge Scalia’s views on women

January 7, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

I know he is not popular, but technically he is correct. The Constitution does not specifically state that women have rightsi It is just that it no longer makes a difference. The Constitution does not say that slaves are free either. Yet the idea of slavery is absurd in our country today. (Yet it exists, in this country still, in sexual slavery of both male and females, hidden just under the surface) We have gone way past Scalia’s point now,…

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Thoughts on Happiness for the New Year

January 1, 2011 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 1 comment

Happy New Year to all my friends and readers and everyone else! ?1-1-11 must be an enchanted day!! It is fun just to write that date and watch all those “1 s” appear as little exclamation points. I wore my new furry boots from Nobel Neilsen in Middleburg Virginia, on New Years Eve, (cause I actually just went out to baby sit some of my grandchildren) New Year’s Eve is NOT a good night to party just for the sake…

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an unusual Christmas post

December 22, 2010 Bonnie B Matheson Comments 0 Comment

The people I coach often have trouble ?with the idea of stepping away from what their friends or family think they should do. Often the issue is one of holding a different world view, but sometimes it is just doing a different job, being married or divorced, moving to a new town or a new country. ?Whatever you do be true to yourself and to your principles. This article is so important that I decided to give my friends and…

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