My FIL is in hospice care as we await the inevitable. Since I'm mostly home during the day I get calls for him, lately lots of calls. He's never lived here but this is his mailing address ( Read more... )

When I get around parents I find that I have little to say. My (elder) son is average. Grades, SATs, work-to-play ratio. Average.

He is intuitive, empathetic, rational (even analytical) in thought, and unfailingly kind. He's amazing with young children. He's a great listener and a good communicator. All he wants out of life is a home and a family ( Read more... )

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I haven't been a regular con-goer for an age. Oh, I usually manage our local regional convention. Not this year due to budgetary issues, but most of the last 10 years. And I've been to WorldCon. I used to go quite regularly, even worked a couple of them. As a grunt for the Masquerade, once as an underling on the Programming Committee. I've run ( Read more... )

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I am old. There's a reason for that ( Read more... )

I think I may be done with Doctor Who.

It's been a long strange ride, but there is no joy there any more. I'm stubborn and resistant to change so I'll probably finish this season but it's sad.

There used to be wonder. I mean, traveling through time and space? Who wouldn't jump at that opportunity? And some mysteries and puzzles and fighting to save ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl I had a friend named Kathy. Kathy lived in a big white house with a neat green yard. She went to the big stone church on the other side of the larger town for which our little town was a bedroom community. I was on-and-off religious as a child and particularly as a teen. I got saved I don't know how many times...it never ( Read more... )

I have taken to turning off the radio and clicking away from any news that has the word 'website' in the first sentence I hear/read. The Affordable Care Act is an ungodly mess and a kludge but no one seems to have a better solution. There's a good chance it'll fail or be repealed and we'll be back to the status quo which is an ungodly mess and a ( Read more... )

I got a letter from my physician's group practice. They're closing up shop in four weeks ( Read more... )