It's been an up and down ride since I got out of the hospital and the last thing I really wanted to do was sit at the computer in an all too uncomfortable chair writing about me.

The long and the short of it is I have had a relapse of whatever I had the first time, and just suffered through it without the benefit of a hospital this time.

The local ( Read more... )

'Rectum! I damn near killed him' the refrain kept repeating in my brain.

Soon my children, sitting near my hospital bed, were practically chanting it among some really hearty belly laughs.

The whole cycle started when daughter Marcie chanced to overhear a conversation coming from a nearby room in which an elderly male patient was demanding that the ( Read more... )

We sit outside, but don’t call us outsiders
MARCIE
STOCKER
Carolina Voices

Within a cloud of thick cigarette smoke, you see a group of people that most in Gastonia do
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I've been hobbling about for some time with two painful clubs for feet thinking it was caused by my diabetes but now I have discovered it is something a bit more sinister.

When I was young and a aspiring political cartoonist I studied the works of the early masters of the craft and came across a classic that was drawn by James Gilray to describe th
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Environmentalists urge reducing 'carbon footprint' to conserve energy

April 20, 2008 - 5:03PM
By Corey Friedman
Geanne Best wants to conserve energy, but her life runs on carbon dioxide.

The Gastonia mother of three commutes to her job in Charlotte behind the wheel of a sport utility ( Read more... )

See if you can spot it.

Arrests made in Cat Square robberies

April 15, 2008 - 7:38PM
By Marcie Stocker
LINCOLNTON - Sheriff's detectives have drawn a number of warrants on several suspects that are believed to have been involved in a rash of break-ins in the Cat Square Road area.

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Most baby boomers remember when blacks or Afro-Americans were negroes or niggers or blackey ( Read more... )

Every year I think I am better health wise than I really am and I allow my activity level to rise knowing full well the outcome ( Read more... )

Subject: Money Saving Tips on pumping gas

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon.
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I ( Read more... )