What's Love Got To Do With It?

That’s right, we’ve all seen or heard about couples who meet and instantly the sparks fly. The hormones rage and before you can say “how do you do” the wedding invitations are at the printer. Am I talking about you? If so, you must face the fact that you are blinded by love. Everyone else around you sees it. Friends and family express their concerns and ask you to put the brakes on, but you are too busy making plans to listen. You start finding it easier to keep loved ones in the dark about your plans rather than have another argument about the wisdom of them. How could it be that everyone else knows, but you two haven’t figured out that something is amiss? Perhaps you are in a daze and not thinking clearly when it comes to your future. Again, am I talking about you? Let’s take a look.

Oil, Oil Go Away. Come Again Another Day.

What was the word, the name, which has yet to be mentioned in this British Petroleum disaster? Not to leave you hanging, it is Ixtoc. Ixtoc was an exploratory well drilled by Pemex, Mexico’s government-owned oil company. Located about 60 miles out in the Bay of Campeche, in about 150 feet of water, Pemex leased Sedco’s 135F Triangular Semi-Submersible drilling rig for the job; using their own crews as was their standard practice.

June Scene and Heard

Did you know that May was National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month? You’d think that would be bigger than Cinco de Mayo here in S.A., where we have the dubious distinction of one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country. And believe it or not, we’ve improved quite a bit in the last 15 years or so. In 1994, nearly 60 percent of Bexar County’s births were to girls between 15 and 17 years old. That’s high school age.

Now local folks can proudly say that only about 40 percent of births are to those 15 to 17 years old. But that’s still a spectacular 73 percent higher than the national average. We may have come a long way, baby, but where high school age moms are concerned, we’ve got a long way to go.