Growing Bolder Community

As I began my 6th hour of playing bingo at the local Elk’s Lodge, I suddenly wished that somebody, anybody, would outlaw the game. My eyes were glazed over and my back hurt. My head was pounding with a headache from the stress of trying to keep up with three cards while 80-something year-old grandma, sitting next to me, was deftly playing six. She had a special bingo bag, complete with several...

Everyone knows if you grow up in a Catholic home the word Bingo is a very important word in your home, at least it was in mine. Before my mom became too disabled to move in with our family she had a nice little apartment and a life of bingo games on Wednesday mornings and Thursday nights at a couple of local Catholic churches. She would go with my mother and father-in-law ......I...

What time is it ?It’s time to give up my life as I know it and go quietly to the nursing home.We enter through the big glass doors and I see strange people in wheel chairs, people wearing scrubs and one man moaning .These sights scare me, I want to go home.One lady approaches me and says “Welcome to your new homeCome lets see your new room.”I was put in a wheelchair and taken down a long...

"My love is nt a game im real n dnt wnt a fake lien cheat" - Jennifer Mee, from her Myspace page On February 16, 2007, I wrote a post about the poor St. Petersburg girl who couldn't shake off hiccups. Believe me, I could relate. Although hers lasted more than a month, mine only hung around for about 2 weeks. Doctors tried everything with her, but in my case, a heavy dose of one medication in...