In July Bill had a colonoscopy because the fecal test indicated that this should happen.  All throughout our life we have always believed that there wasn't any cancer in Bill's family... Well 7 polyps and a mass later we learned that this was NOT the case.  Bill responsibility was to let his sisters know... however shocking and angry making Andi ( Read more... )

Addicted to Helping: Why We Need to Stop Trying to Fix People ( Read more... )

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Mrs. Figliulo has died. Yesterday morning Bill came in to tell me that my first BFF Carly posted on FB that she was placed on hospice. About 7 hours later she posted that her mother had passed ( Read more... )

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

-- Henry James

I have one hell of an imagination. Time isn't slowing down so lets all giddy up!

Beauty and quilts. Yes they can be very pleasing to the eye. Never a ( Read more... )

This is very crummy, painful, rotten, and a huge bummer. We have a couple of elderly friends who are at that horrible crux where they are refusing to recognize that they are losing their independence. The gentleman is horribly ill and needs some intense therapy but insisted on going home from the hospital. The therapy would have to be at a ( Read more... )

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On this irreverent note. OK a young actor died. BUMMER but NOT worth cracking all EMO over. Just another opportunity to shovel the obvious, drugs aren't for everyone, even the legal ones have repercussions. Media just floating another series of wringing hands stories while completely ignoring the reality of the other 349,999,999 regular stiffs ( Read more... )

OK I love my internal scientist. I like to examine why things evolved certain ways. Stuff like how people act protective over critters with large eyes, babies have large eyes, ergo women put on war paint to exaggerate their eyes. There is something that I can't figure out for survival of the species. It is STUPIDITY. More specific how people ( Read more... )

Brigid called this morning. Doug has decided to not go for radiation treatments. Gina is of course crushed angry and then I just got an email from her saying the same. Apparently he accused her of running around on him yesterday as he was sure she didn't meet us. I'm suspicious of drug interactions from anti depressants are making him psychotic ( Read more... )