Dad and I went up to visit with Mother today. She's completely out of it--where once she was responding to outside voices, at this point, she is no longer aware of them ( Read more... )

I posted this on my Facebook this morning--

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

And it explains a lot, because that is not what I have been doing, and it may be the key to why I am NOT so happy right at the moment...

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A Wall Street Journal article, from someone outside the industry, that pretty much verifies what I said in my last friendslocked post.

Please--be educated about this. Learn as much as you can. And express yourself accordingly.

There are those of us out there who, whether willingly or not, are Grammar Nazis. We literally cringe at abuses and misuses of our mother language, and sing the praises of the Oxford comma and correct spelling. We are driven to madness when we realize that we often occupy the planet with folks who turn verbs into nouns and vice versa because they ( Read more... )

Walter Cronkite died last night at 7:42 PM. Interestingly enough, it was a time that would have seen him safely and responsibly through his own evening broadcast, which would have aired between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. Plenty of time to put the day's stories to bed before he himself put down his own head and rested ( Read more... )

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If you need a little break from the "All Michael, All The Time" nonsense that is currently sucking up airtime on every bleedin' television station from coast to coast, and you need a bit of a giggle, go meander your mind over to Sarah Palin's Facebook page, and read what messages your fellow 'Merkins have written to Saint Sarah ( Read more... )

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Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

--Emma Lazarus

As you celebrate today--and you SHOULD--remember that the battle still goes on, and that we must win.

And special shout outs to the Great State of Alaska, who earned a little more independence yesterday!

Things were so busy yesterday that I thought my brains were going to explode ( Read more... )

On Friday, Barb The Home Care Nurse (she takes care of both Mother AND me at this point) called me from Mom and Dad's house to let me know that Mom was running a fever of 101.6. Their doctor's office was closed for the day (which is a whole 'NOTHER issue, that may or may not be expanded upon later), and Mother was so weak that she probably could ( Read more... )