Accidentally found out some very bad news about Robyn's grandson with Tay-Sachs. I am presuming he's passed - but since his mother is not really speaking to Robyn, (rolling eyes here), 'that news' can't really come from the source that gave me (accidentally) a very strong hint. So here I am keeping my mouth shut while strongly wishing it all were ( Read more... )

I think I just realized that Adam torqued me so bad because he loved me. I had no idea or expectations about that, but in writing a story about an older man helping a kid... anyhow it just rang for me. So that would explain part of why he overreacted so badly. Egotistic, yeah, maybe on both parts, but it's still beyond me. In my writing I'm doing ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went down to the Kameole Beach Park II (there are three) to see a stranded whale. It was an ill and injured pygmy sperm whale. We knew a lot of the people helping deal with it. The protocol is to keep it wet and comfortable and then a vet from Oahu flies in to determine if it can be helped or needs to be euthanized. I don't know under ( Read more... )

I'm grateful I have fibromyalgia because it gives me something to blame for anything that hurts, aches, stings, or causes me to be stupid and 'lazy'. It's like being bitten by flies though. Gnats, maybe, I dunno. With a broken arm you can see what hurts and you get it fixed and you are understood and people are sympathetic to you. With my luck, I'd ( Read more... )

There was a very nice little party to thank us volunteers at the old Pu'unene Friends of the Library book store. It's a former boys' bathroom behind one of the very old schools out behind the sugar mill. Red dirt everywhere. Anyhow, Jeanne, 'the boss', gave us all presents and mine was a big box of Belgian chocolates, which I've never had before. ( Read more... )

We just got 'most' of your card today in the mail. We got the back of the envelope, and 2/3 of the front of the envelope, and nothing of whatever was inside! It has a 'received in damaged condition' stamp on it (DUH). Phooey!           I went to the bird pond today, the old WWII bunkers are still standing and I love walking around the dusty roads. ( Read more... )

One down and two to go! This was for the volunteers at the whale sanctuary, ie - Robyn. There was a catered dinner, a couple of games, singing and the gift exchange where you can take a new gift or someone else's, which is always  fun. On the down side the acoustics were horrible, you could hardly hear the person across from you and you couldn't ( Read more... )

Is curiosity a normal human trait (for survival?) or learned (for grades?) and how does it relate to wanting understanding... how did we get from 'there's that big white thing in the sky' to 'what is the moon and how did it get there?'

So older son has not told his daughter who is almost 14, that her grandma is transgender and do you know why? Because he associates that with pedophilia and swinging... this is a man who is over age 50 and has a PhD. That's a little frightening. I am no longer naïve enough to only see the good in people... which hey, used to get me in all kinds of ( Read more... )

I heard back from my older son with some nice things said but mainly a comment about one bad incident in his childhood which I never knew about until he was an adult. I know things cast long shadows but blaming me for 'putting him in a place where these people are known to...." yeah, abuse. In my defense it was an innocent time and it wasn't like ( Read more... )