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To my finely honed clinical eyes......and ears....

...as to sniffy, creepy, real racist, multi millions corruption family, uncle lunchbox, Joe Biden. No need to be Sir William Osler, to appreciate the new trend in changes in memory and gaffs by Jim Crow Joe Everyman, over the past few weeks. In som

91 yrs

Dad's birthday was Tuesday. Mom is getting to see Dad three times a week now just to help him eat which he isn't fond of doing anymore. Siblings and myself still can't go to that nursing home to see him yet. However for his 91st birthday on Tuesda

Why?

This is a huge pet peeve I have . It's about people who think scarring the crap out of your baby and makeing it scream and cry is some how funny? Well it's Not! Don't you realize the brain is developing and verry fragile in a baby and small child. Y

Fay, Fay... is everything okay?

I know she's got a few things going on with her parents and family. Usually she isn't gone more than a week and I think it's nearly 2. Good thoughts your way my friend!

Things Are Looking Up!

Earlier today I spent some time at a office at Campus Towers Apartments and the lady handling my application said a phone call next week(sometime) is possible!

I'm Moving!

UPDATE: As a new and future resident of Campus Towers Apartments on the West Side of Jacksonville, FL, I will be moving there from my nephew's place at the Navy--owned Ribault Village housing community in November :

How to value a woman <3

woman is the most sensible creater. She looks like a dandelion flower, easy to miss her seeds, easy to miss or let us say lose control of her strength, power, attention, patience.. also her tears easy go down. but never miss her hope, beauty, love, c

The wall... unit that is!

Two weeks ago I was installing pendant lights and this past weekend I was designing a brick faced wall unit. My daughter decided she wanted a fireplace built-out wall unit. She found a local company who had photos on their site but needed my help for

Life .

be careful what you wish for ..

A weekend of laughs and lots of drinking.

I went to a party this last weekend. My cousin's eldest daughter turned 18, so my brother, sister, mother and I had to drive from just south of Copenhagen to the southern part of Denmark. The border with Germany was a 20 minute drive away from where

Great advice!

Fried Apples

I'm not an apple gal hence Bella the tiny Chi has Not been given any either. Mom gave me a couple of apples saying she fried hers which I've never done. I peeled, chopped, cut a few raw pieces into Bella's food and hollered at her about 15 times to

64th Anniversary

Mom & Dad had their 64th anniversary yesterday. Baby sister talked the care center into letting Mom and her offsprings to come see him through the glass. Lots of signs were made saying things like WE LOVE YOU, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, PLEASE EAT, et al.

Twins' 23rd Birthday Party.....Beautiful Bar Harbour, Maine.....

If you are blessed with kids, don't scrimp on the movies, photos, journaling and family trips. Time flies much too fast, and without such tools, memories can fade.

Something For Everyone...

I posted a Love is thread in the Forums, as the thread went on, I made a post that I feel all could benefit from...I have been here off and on since 2009, and have never one time posted a Blog, But I felt Inspired to make this one post over here in t

Dad, Not Yet

Dad was already on his Alzheimer's journey when the virus hit. Siblings and I got Mom to the care center daily before the virus but we don't get to see Dad since the facilities got locked down. Hospice has been called twice on Dad but he is a t

what would you do?

If you found out that your mother has less than 5 months to live?

Can someone connect me to the twitter account?

Anyone have the twitter link please?.................. .....................................................

It's a girl!

I just got the news my extended family in a land far, far away had their first born today. Sadly, we cannot travel to be there for the event.

Our First Get Together

Mom turned 84 years old yesterday. She has been married to Dad over 60 years but hasn't been able to see him since our world changed. The not knowing if he is being cared for as well as the worry about the new world hasn't torn her mind down but it

Proud Nonny

I saw this post by my grandiva the other day on FB and because I'm so proud of this my wild child granddiva - I'm going to share what she wrote. It may mean nothing to you but it moved me. Long read but goes fast: Imagine what this was like for a

RIP DAD & MOM - I LOVE AND MISS YOU - THIS IS FOR YOU XOXO

A teenage event that happened in my life 4 decades ago. Went to a house party. Much later a fight broke out, so couldn't find the friend i came out, becasue the scene was just chaotic. Met a guy there who I had kissed in the past who offered me a

The Irish---and the Choctaw.

Is it a product of the C-19 influences on us all? Or something greater? During the potato blight famine, around 1847, apparently the Choctaw tribe sent just under USD 200 to help the Starving Irish. Now, it's not as if this Tribe was without it's own

Time to Wait

I believe I wrote about hospice being called in for my Dad over a month ago. He was so bad off. I figured since Hospice was called his departure would be soon, not the case. In my youth I heard a saying "Waiting on someone to die is the longest wa

Name ONE positive that has come out of the stay at home.

One crazy thing I like...people broadcasting from home. I get to see their kitchens, living rooms, etc. I want Fallon's wallpaper. Wonder what the rest looks like cause it seems to be a wild house for decor. When I was a child, we made runs into tow

Um feliz Domingo de Pascoal.

Happy Easter, from a slob struggling with this somewhat challenging language of Portuguese. I can use all the help I can get, and may recently have been blessed with such. Sure, German's somewhat harder, and having Spanish already helps. But the latt

An extraordinary day !!

Today has been an extraordinary day for me. 15 years ago I was found by my birth family related on my Mother's side. The reunion has been incredible and the friendships have improved daily. This morning I got my Ancestry DNA results sent to me and

A Family in "Lockdown"

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Baby got rollback

A baby girl was born Wednesday in the toilet paper aisle of a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri to the cheers of customers rushing to stockpile on basic necessities in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Store manager Jessica Hinkle told local

A helpful hack for your loved fury friend

If you loves your furry friend the bottom of there mouths and the hairs along its mouth lips carry alot of germs which you should clean after each meal more so if they are fed canned food and meats, dry foods are safer of course a mild soap and wat

It could be done today...

After several attempts at a house closing and getting all the documents signed, the city required a Re-Occupancy inspection. The purpose was to certify that a single-family was clearly that and matched the county documents. The inspectors visit was N

Is It Time For Women To Start Proposing To Men?

Well well well slow down just chatting over a cup of coffee in my comfy little place When it comes to marriage, we’ve moved happily away from traditional gender roles. A woman’s place is no longer

The Goodbye is Coming

I am often reminding myself how lucky I have been to still have my parents as I approach my 70th year. Lord I don't feel 70. It's getting harder to focus on how lucky I am as I watch Dad's disease kill him oh so slowly. It's no fun either to watch

My unwelcome guest

I love browsing in second hand book shops. I bought a book about magic and was leafing through it one night when I inadvertently evoked a demon from the underworld. It said it had come to carry out my bidding, but I couldn't think of anything for i

RAY OF HOPE

It is always my morning prayer to have enough patience and strength.Working in an Intensive Care Unit needs guts every minute of the day.Seeing those ventilated patients could really melt my heart .Imagine one can be just tough

Apologize or Never Apologize

I remember the first time I apologized, I was just a kid. I was a few years old, I made a mistake towards someone (I don't remember everything exactly). My mother came to me and said "apologize" At first I thought it was a joke and I wanted to leave,

The gender roulette at conception, and fake prerogatives---VERY fake...

...Born a male? Your chances historically, and almost exclusively today, of active participation in land combat warfare and all THAT entails, are set at birth. Sure, there have been exceptions, as with the IDF and more recently with Kurdish female u

Adoption - and reunion

15 years ago this week I was found by my maternal birth family. The reunion has been great and the friendship is growing every day. There was still a gap though as the identity of my birth Father has been a mystery..... ......Until now ! Throug

Thinking.....Broadly.....and not a little.....sociopathically....

.... but adaptively?... Wiser stateshupersons see many parallels between what are becoming the world's two most powerful, and politically very different countries. Parallels that in past times ended in conflict. Culturally, and historically, let's

Your tips for graduates, from the perspective of your life experience.

Dear friends! Most of you who read and comment on my blogs already know I'm a special boy's mom. But I am also a mom of a very smart, intelligent, creative, beautiful, kind daughter. She is a million times better than me. She is active in various

All I Want 4 Christmas...

I'm a simple man really. I don't need much and these days I expect even less. I find that it minimalizes the potential for disappointment and maximizes square footage! I don't have much to recycle or toss in the bin after opening Christmas gifts.