“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

            Matthew 7:15 King James Bible

Prophet Manasseh Jordan called me on my cell phone Friday afternoon. … Read full post »

I realize that I am responding late to the open call for “awesome stories” by the new editor, but I am hoping that he/she will take into consideration that I was indisposed yesterday while undergoing a colonoscopy.

My awesome story commenced on Wednesday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. when… Read full post »

A friend of mine posted a clip from the documentary, Alive Inside, on her facebook page today, so I do not take credit for this post.  We belong to the same caregivers support group at the NYC Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

The documentary shows the transformation that occu… Read full post »

 
Photo credit, The Inquisitr 

As if things couldn’t get any worse for John Edwards, a call girl working for the “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina told investigators she was paid to have sex with the former senator when he was fundraising in New York during hi… Read full post »

An article in The New York Times yesterday entitled “Life, With Dementia” by Pam Belluck, discussed the underreported phenomenon of dementia in the prison population. 

According to Ms. Belluck, “In 2010, 9,560 people 55 and older were sentenced, more than twice as many in 199… Read full post »

When I visited Mom at the nursing home yesterday, I noticed that all her cookies were gone.  Last Sunday I brought her a bag of Pepperidge Farm soft-baked oatmeal raisin cookies and a bag of Ginger Man cookies.  It’s possible that she ate them all, but it is/… Read full post »

“God damn the Pusher Man.”

            Steppenwolf

I don’t know about you, but I find that some of the most entertaining TV commercials are those for prescription drugs.  The networks show them around dinner time.  T… Read full post »

“It’s a show. It’s not the end of Western Civilization.  It’s chewing gum.”

                        Jerry Springer

Frieze of gladiator b… Read full post »

The tall leggy blonde’s favorite phrase is “douche bag” and she’s “all for” public floggings.  She’s a good friend of Bill Maher; rumor has it they were once lovers. 

Maher has called her a “witty, fun drinking comp… Read full post »

My husband says I write too much about my mom and maybe I do, but she has been my “child” for so long I guess I can’t help myself.  Very co-dependent of me.  The mentally ill have a way of getting under your skin.

It’s almost the end… Read full post »

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.  A time to eat turkey and stuffing, no purchases necessary.  As for so many in others, it's been a tough year financially and otherwise, so my husband L and I have decided we are not exchanging gifts with anyone this year. 

Still,… Read full post »

“Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's
a sunny day
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away.”  

           … Read full post »

Shana Tova.  Happy New Year, one and all.  I am not Jewish, but my husband is on his mother’s side, and I want to embrace all the goodness I can.  I had a big birthday a few days ago, and was treated to a surprise birthday party by a group/… Read full post »

“. . . And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,
Yeah they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” 
                       Peter Scholtes 

L… Read full post »

A year or two ago, I discovered something new and surprising about my mom: she loves Sex and the City.  It’s shocking because she is a devout Catholic who never dated after the divorce or re-married, and perpetually complains about TV shows with too much sex and violence, although she… Read full post »

“If Momma was married
We'd live in a house
As private as private can be
Just Momma, three ducks, five canaries,
A mouse, two monkeys, one father, six turtles
And me...
If Momma was married.”

                 &… Read full post »

Fugue State.   Neurology:  A state in which the patient denies memory of activities for a period of hours to weeks; to external appearances, these activities were either completely normal or the patient disappeared and travelled extensively; most are functional; short fugues rarel/… Read full post »

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

                        Malachy McCourt

I don’t recall the moment it happened, but it… Read full post »

“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.”

--Leon Trotsky

I lost my virginity to a Trotskyite I met doing guerrilla theater in the West Village.  Let’s call him “Bela” to protect the innocent.  His fat… Read full post »

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “guttersnipe”:
1.  A homeless vagabond and especially an outcast, boy or girl in the streets of a city.

2.  A person of the lowest moral or economic station.

From an early age I was schooled in the art of burying my feelings.  My j/… Read full post »

“I hear the bells ringing out

I hear the cannons roar

I see Americans–all Americans

Free forever more”

                        Sherman Edwards (1776)

In 196… Read full post »

He’s gone.  Peter Falk, aka “Columbo”, one of the most cherished (at least for me) TV icons whose famous line was, “just one more thing,” as he caught the murderer red-handed just as they thought they were off the hook.  His memoir Just One More Thing was publi/… Read full post »

“Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners.”
                                Charlton Heston

Guns don’t fit my demogr… Read full post »

He could play Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with his hands, capturing every note, every rest, every nuance, so you could really hear it.  The music teacher Mr. Leonardo let Rick go up to the organ loft at Blessed Sacrament Church, and he would teach him a little, but mostly he let him… Read full post »

We went through it all together, or so it seems.  The doctors’ appointments, the diagnosis, the challenges of everyday living, the aides, Easter weekend, Mother’s Day, movies and poems.  Only difference is that mom’s institutionalized, and I’m not.  My husband L… Read full post »