In an hour I drive Adam to the airport so he can fly to California for his grandmother's funeral. She died in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. She was 96. She lived about 25 years longer than she ever expected to. Adam will be back Saturday morning, along with his mother ( Read more... )

Found out this morning that a guy I went to school with died yesterday in a diving accident. He was married to his high school sweetheart who was in my class. I wasn't ever friends with them. They were nice, but were friends with a bunch of people who weren't. I don't think I've seen them in over a decade, but I'm still sad this morning. 35 is too ( Read more... )

So, Osama is dead. Most people on my FB feed (I block a lot) have been very thoughtful, but Adam takes the cake ( Read more... )

Last night I made delicious honey-mustard chicken salads. Wow, homemade honey mustard dressing is wonderful. Bennett, not being into salads, had some of the components in his bowl: apple slices, hard boiled egg slices, chicken pieces, etc. Half way through dinner Bennett points to the chicken and says 'chicken dead.' Yes, we say. We couldn't eat it ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time with Dr. Tiller's murder. I have missed it on the news cycles, thankfully, but it is all over the internet. Having built and birthed my own child I am more sensitive to this issue than I was 2 years ago. I have heard from thoughtful, though dogmatic, individuals that a person cannot be both pro-life and pro-choice, but I ( Read more... )

I have a cold ( Read more... )

I don't know how I missed the entry.... well, I do. I was working all day yesterday and didn't read my friends page. A woman from one of my due date communities lost her sweet, beautiful daughter yesterday. I have been crying my eyes out at work. I cannot even imagine the grief. I have never met this woman, but I respect her so much and I loved her ( Read more... )

I made the mistake of watching the cell phone video of the stoning to death of a 17 year old Iraqi girl. It was an "honor killing." As Twisty Faster posted:

The Daily Mail and other reports title the story more or less like this: “Teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy.” Implying that the girl, however much sympathy we have for ( Read more... )

No one ever finds another's dreams terribly interesting. Knowing that I plow ahead anyway to report that I had another death dream last night. I will spare many of the details leading up to the act, except to say that a man and his teenage son were killed by a large lurking dark executioner: their hair grabbed from behind and stabbed in the back. ( Read more... )

"They" say that if you die in your dreams you die in real life. I know that not to be true. Twice in my late teens I died in my dreams. In one, one of my few black and white dreams, I was the victim of a drive-by beheading. Yes, you read that correctly. I got to see my severed head and slumped body lying in a ditch on one of the Valley roads. In ( Read more... )