A friend of mine had a stroke ten years ago – when her daughter called to tell me, I just started crying immediately. Grace under pressure not me. Now the daughter has a daughter who has copious medical problems that are so opaque no one knows what is wrong and so today three doctor appointments deep, I was waiting for a debriefing when I got a call that mom #1 had experienced black outs and…
I can picture it now – me and the Bean in Blue pulling this from behind and living on the beaches of Mexico. http://www.dwr.com/airstream
I was listening to an NPR segment on the rise of violent crime. It seems that New Orleans is not undergoing it’s own particularly virulent strain of murders but instead murder rates and violent crime rates are on the rise in most major cities. Here is an excerpt from a Silence is Violence email: “As many of you know, yesterday the FBI released crime statistics for 2006 and the news was not good: New Orleans…
In the career life, most bosses like to see a married person as opposed to a single one. The reason is they know that person will most likely go to bed at a reasonable hour and will most likely not do something psycho like take off to Mexico. Well that was what most of married life was like – he worked, I worked – and without kids it was more like, he worked all the…
For a long time, science believed that the brain was hard wired and once encoded you had to deal with it or go to therapy or do whatever you could to overcome the code. But there is whole different school of thought that is all the rage and that is the plasticity of the brain. So you do hard wire experience, which then causes you to be attracted or repelled by the same things over…
Okay Myspace is addicting – it was so easy to add a slide show of my pics, a song I like, and the Dick in the Box video as my fav and I have been getting pinged by nephews and nieces, which is terrific. Anybody who hasn’t tried it, needs to get their profile on there. Meanwhile, I just read that Friendster is even better – because it has all these cool cool things you…
All of my nieces and nephews are on MySpace, so I signed up and have been communicating with them there. It’s interesting to see how they profile themselves. The pics of the girls are provocative and their wallpaper or video and music selections look like something out of a slam book from my day (okay let’s not talk about my day). Whatever it is, it’s pretty cool to go on there and see where young…
It started raining early today as if the sky were falling – June 1st marked the first day of hurricane season and this is the second or third big thunderstorm we have had where water comes down from the sky with a purpose. It’s pretty cool sitting up here in the tower and working while the lightning and thunder are all around me. Meanwhile, Arlene does not feel the same way – she has been…
From the I-10, you can see a half-naked man standing up in a boat with a fishing pole and a big smile on his face (and mine).