That hospital bed in your living room, holding you while you were leaving us.

People filing through, confessing gratitude through tears.

The nursing student you taught, the neighbor you coached through heartbreak,

Our niece – sobbing to know that you would not see her graduation.

I will be so… Read full post »

After reading Ms Snitten’s hilarious classified ad to sell her mother-in-law, and then Man Talk Now’s list of questions for the aspiring victims of crazy girls, I started thinking about being a mother-in-law, and being a mother in general.

When my daughters were born, I felt this… Read full post »

Who could forget that image?  Dr. Martin Luther King Junior collapsed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, in April of 1968.  His companions all pointing in the same direction – the rooming house across the street where they thought the shot originated.  It’s a tragic, ico/… Read full post »

Did you see Karen Kaplan's article in the Los Angeles Times today about a new source of stem cells?  Readily available, no embyos needed and they grow into nerve, muscle and other types of tissue cells with great alacrity.

Okay, there's  one teeny tiny catch -- you get them from male… Read full post »