taxes

Reckoning with the IRS is tough enough when it's your own hard-earned pay being siphoned, but watching your college-bound, part-time working, full-time student come to terms with what the government has taken from him really stinks. If I was tempted to become an activist, and I'm not- mostly because I'm just too tired- I would seriously consider protesting the federal income tax. Oh, there are lots of taxes to get upset about, sales tax, property tax, etc. but there's something innately wrong about skimming a person's wages, no matter who you are and what your motives are. Income taxes were the first big step away from the free-market system and I'm not sure if we'll ever make it back to that place where we're truly free to make a living without government interference.
Love, Lori

The sad thing is that I'll look back on this day and wish that I could go back to the good old fifties. Yep. I know this because I now look back on the day I turned forty. Aging is a strange and uncomfortable phenomenon. As facial features, and everything else for that matter begins to droop south,you gotta wonder what the end result will look like. Not a very pretty picture I'm afraid. That said, I would not go back, even if I could. Nothing like old wounds to remind you that the wars you've successfully battled are better left in the past. So, come what may, I'm going down this road, and I'm blessed to be taking each step with the man of my dreams by my side.
Love, Lori