For those of you who don’t get the “Green Acres” reference in panel 2 (and I’m sure my poor caricature of Eva Gabor didn’t help), one of the running gags of the show was Lisa’s inability to cook. About the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sure, all we’re doing is sitting down watching TV, but because I’ve been away from my family all those years (34 to be exact) and my father’s passed away (7 years now) I’m glad I can spend some time with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in 2002, while at my local grocery store, I saw, posted on the community bulletin board*, a business card for a local woman who offers Income Tax Service. For the next 15 years she would do my yearly tax[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure I’ve touched upon this subject during the last few years that I was unemployed. Not being able to chip in, to help out, whether with gifts or birthday dinners like this, you feel so useless. So poor. After[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today, The Good: My mom finally gets to return home. She’ll be visited by physical therapists over the next several weeks, to help with her sciatica, but at least that can be done for her in her own home. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I probably come off as a bit callous at the end of this, but I’m in no way blaming the depressing feel of this place on the people staying here. I’m not talented enough to be able to really depict[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’a not like the areas of Westmoreland County that I’ll be searching is all that far from Pittsburgh. It’s only about 20 miles. It’s just that I didn’t see myself moving back into the area where I grew up. Who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The woman who’s sharing my mom’s room looks to be in her late 40’s early 50’s. She must have suffered some sort of brain injury and needs near constant attention. She’ll begin saying words “No, no, no” or “Nah-uh, nah-uh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could fill up pages upon pages describing how horrifically we treat the sick, ill and especially the old in this country. These “for profit” nursing homes care for only one thing… profit! A true, humane society cares for those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure I come off obnoxiously opinionated here, but as the days wore down towards game day, I realized that I disliked both teams and their fan bases so much, that there’d be no way I could enjoy the game,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…