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MY BIRTHDAY My birthday was last Friday. It marked the end of a particularly challenging year. So as not to dwell on the negatives, I’ll simply mention them. My mother was placed in a nursing home. As Alzheimer’s picks away at her mind and cripples her body it was no longer possible to care for her in her own home. Her end is near and the waiting seems endless. My twenty-year non-profit...

Today, Tuesday, June 3, my husband and I are celebrating our second anniversary. People who know us think we've been married for many years. Sometimes it feels that way. We've been through A LOT in the short period of time. But I can tell you that I'm even more in love with him today that I was yesterday---but it won't be as much as tomorrow (I know that's a song)! Every now and then I...

Check out my interview with Olympia Dukakis and her husband Louis Zorich on the importance of diabetic screening here.

Hi Friends So Happy to be here ! Had a bad scare over the weekend..was not felling all that great for about 4 days ..went to bed early on Friday night,woke up because I was so cold ..Put more covers on ,plus a big housecoat ..did not work,so I ran a hot bath ..after I got out ,I felt faint ,plus I felt like I wanted to get sick ..I woke my Husband to inform him of this ,and that is...

One of my husband's friends recently told him that he's been sleeping on an air mattress for two years and loves it. So one day, without asking my opinion, my husband thought it would be a good idea to buy an air mattress to replace our very old Simmons Beautyrest Pillow Top mattress. He gave me the impression that if I didn't like it, we'd get a regular mattress. The first night we slept on...

I admit that I have been craving fall lately. You see, I hail from Pennsylvania, went to college in New York and lived for several years in Washington, D.C. So, throughout all of October and November, I was eager to head home for Thanksgiving and bundle up in cozy sweaters and smell the crispness in the air. There's just something un-fall-like about 90-degree weather. But this year, you...