Mammogram, Breast Cancer and Oprah

Men, this would be a good place to cover your eyes lest you be exposed to some major girl talk.
I had my first mammogram today. I had no real idea what to expect beyond what I’d read or heard about somehow squishing breasts. The lady who was to be my photographer asked if [...]

Read Full Post »

Ear Hair

I’m sharing an insight spoken aloud today by husband who was getting a haircut.
“You know you’re getting older when it takes longer to trim the hair in your ears than it takes to do the top of your head.”

Read Full Post »

Faith Restored

I sat observing a pair of sparrows that had taken up residence in a dead, leafless corpse of an apple tree in our back yard. Their nest, lined with feathers and branches, had been carefully built and hidden inside a knot hole in the trunk of the tree. Every now and then, I’d walk by [...]

Read Full Post »

Sum Sum Summertime

These are things that I think about when I recall summertimes past and present.
Grapefruit Slurpees big enough to last an afternoon of lounging, sun-tanning and talking about boys.
The coconut scent of suntan lotion on a tiny stretch of beach crammed with greasy bodies.
The sounds of the Police, Chris Deburgh, Peter Gabriel, Neil Diamond, Bonnie Raitt, [...]

Read Full Post »

Christian the Lion Reunion Video (sniff)

I watched this on the Today Show and was relieved to see that Meredith was also left in tears.  I’m crying again posting it.
Insightz: I always get emotional when seeing people caring for animals. I get sickened I see people abusing them. I can tell by the lion’s reaction that they treated [...]

Read Full Post »

The Future

The Future:  A nice place to visit from time to time, but I wouldn’t want to live there.  The present’s much more enjoyable when experienced fully.

Read Full Post »

Captions

Things were so bad in Wonderland that they had to call in the children’s army to kick to some ass.
A view of the future:  Turtle cars.  Fuel source: Cabbage. 
HEADLINE:  Distracted by cabbage, blood-thirsty tortoises safely corralled thanks to the quick thinking of members of a Victorian children’s choir.
 
 
 

Read Full Post »

A Formula for Disease

 
Have you noticed how the size of tech gadgets keeps getting smaller and smaller but meal portion sizes keep going the other way?

Read Full Post »

Liver Moving By Itself?

I was looking up info on freezing soup when I saw an intriguing link and found this question, “Can liver move in a fridge?”  
Liver would never move in my fridge, never ever.  Nobody’d touch it. 
Apparently there is a story about the organ meat being attracted to milk.  Read for yourself here.
Insightz:  If I were liver, I’d [...]

Read Full Post »

Bony M

Yup, just as I thought. 
It’s still in there.
(See this post.)

Read Full Post »