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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for the 'Family' Category

Scientology and Kids - Children of Scientologists

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This is a personal rebuttal to some websites I’ve seen from apostates recently that denigrated my religion with regard to raising children in Scientology. Here’s how I see this issue:

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My parents divorced when I was an infant, back in 1953. I grew up in a series of broken homes, attended 17 schools before graduating high school in 1970, and had 3 stepmoms and 7 step-dads at various times, as well as foster parents. I can remember living in 52 different houses in 6 states as a child. My parents were alcoholics, whose lives spun out of control in …

Avian Flu

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Avian Flu info & links - what’s the big deal?

A reader scolded me today

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Had some major computer problems in January that put me way behind. Basically I bought a new computer from pieces and had it assembled - it then proceeded to crash for the next month until we discovered the memory had been placed into the wrong slots and we had to slow down the bus speed a hair.

Give War a Chance

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

Impatiently awaiting the release of “Matrix Reloaded” tomorrow

A wedding and four stories

Wednesday, April 16th, 2003

I have reserved tickets to my daughter’s wedding in Florida

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