I guess I should have known that my broken leg example would come back to bite me. I remember the story in"Mutant Messenger from Down Under" (how do we underline here?) I read one time that the book was fiction. Don't know, rang pretty true to me. Anyway, substitute amputation for broken leg. No amount of wishful thinking is going to bring that leg back once it's in the incinerator.

After Lisa's comment about approaching the stock market with joy and love rather than fear and...

Hello all! David and I are back from a great visit with Richard and Peggy. We left last Wednesday and decided at the last minute to go down the Oregon coast instead of I-5. We played tourist on the way down, stopping at the Tillimook Cheese Factory and spending the night in a little motel in Pacific City. Thursday found us at the Oregon Aquarium in Newport - really interesting and fun, then meandering on down the coast with a short stop at the Sea Lion Caves. We arrived at Dick's about 7pm...

Mom had another passing out episode at church today. Paramedics brought her to the emergency room, but they discharged her after a couple hours. (A near-record for our ER.) Last time they checked her out and kept her overnight, this time they didn't even bother. Everything they checked was normal, but they didn't check very in-depth. They seem to have the attitude"She's old, it's expected." I insisted she at least walk around the ER before they let her go, but she passed (as I knew she...