Mississippi Jobs
Hattiesburg MS is one of the Top 20 College Towns in the US, according to Forbes.com and as such, has shown an overall INCREASE on jobs through 2008 and 2009. This is good news for anyone looking for a job during a recession. Jobs in the Hattiesburg market center around retail sales, healthcare, tourism, and restaurants/food service (including management positions). With the University of Southern Mississippi and a dozen other schools and many hospitals in the area,  additional larger numbers of positions for Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacists, Computer Professionals, and Mental Health professionals are also near at hand. Hattiesbu

I-77 Corridor – Charlotte NC
The I-77 highway runs north and south through the eastern portions of the United Staes from Cleveland, Ohio down to Florida. It was built along routes that were Native American pathways and wagon rails and Pennsylvania settlers traveled those paths as well. All of the transit across the years since 1750,  both commerical and passenger, added up to make Charlotte a transportation hub of land and air as well as a gateway city to the South. Healthcare, technological researchm WEducation, Travel and Tourism, and New Business Startup are all healthy industry sectors that together over 17,000 job openings in this metro area. Jobs have increased since 2005

Sleep Disorders
A regualr Reader asked me about SLEEP TALKING, what causes it, and what might be done to stop it.  It’s several years since I’ve thought about this particular condition, known medically as somniloquy. Nearly 50% of children do it and only 4-5% of adults experience the phenomeon. One person I knew did Sleep Singing in high school, really suprising his mom at 6:00 AM one morning. A moderately long list of things can cause sleep talking and sometimes it can be attached to violence or recognized mental health disorders, so its best to consult a doctor in each troubling case. Learn more about it at:

Thanksgiving Bread Puddings
These are recipes to try this Thanksgiving for “something different.”  Newer flavors of  bread puddings are sure to become traditional. Based on the  recipes prepared by early American settlers of the Midwest, East, and South,  they may become your favorites.  A Bread Pudding of Another Color

Jobs in Space by 2012
Ponderosa Steak Houses in the late 1960s – 70s purchased the first spot on the first space station for a restaurant, but time ran out before it could even be started in construction. It was a good idea, though, and 40 years later, there will be that restaurant in space – in a hotel, but it will not a Ponderosa. Related to this, new lines of work are emerging very quickly during the Obama Administration, but began well before the Ansari X Prize was first awarded in 2004.  The Mars Society has long advocated for space exploration by private as well as government agencies and it is coming ever closer to t