Only The Good Friday

March 20, 2009

I am always in awe of people with courage. I’m talking courage with a capital “C.” It’s the kind of courage that you can’t even know you have until you are faced with an impossible situation. I have no illusions about myself — I know I don’t have it! If you give me bad news, [...]

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Something To Crow About! Only The Good Friday

March 6, 2009

Sunday mornings were my favorite part of the week when I was a child. We got up early and scrubbed for church (no I didn’t like that part). Usually, before we went to worship, we ate a quick breakfast of milk toast, which is exactly what it sounds like with a little sugar on it. [...]

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Meditation To Relieve Stress

March 3, 2009

It seems odd to me that a blogging friend, whom I have never met, seems to have a sixth sense about when I need a lift. Sometimes she telephones me out of the blue. Today was one of those days! My cell phone buzzed and it was Thorne out in California. She asked me how [...]

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How Do YOU Dispose of Old Medication?

March 2, 2009

In the last few years of her life, my Momma took literaly hundreds of different medications. It seemed that every week when she went to the doctors, they changed her meds or doses. Another half-used bottle of prescription medication got shoved to the back of the medicine cabinet. When Momma died, those medications got tossed [...]

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Prevent A Head Cold?

January 13, 2009

I may have found a way to prevent the common cold … or not. Y’all will just have to try it for yourselves and see if it works for you. I usually spend my winters sneezing and wheezing. I go from one cold to the next one. My time is spent bundled up in the [...]

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Only The Good Friday. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

January 2, 2009

In mid-November, I was half-listening to a daytime television show. I don’t remember what show, and I don’t remember the name of the doctor being interviewed. However, she said something that caught my attention. She listed five things to add to your diet that could lower your cholesterol as much as 30%, which is as [...]

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Throw Away Your “Old” Lotions!!

December 13, 2008

She hadn’t seen me in six months. The smile in her eyes died as she glanced down at my hands. Her eyes grew as round as pizza pies, as she took my hands and cradled them in hers. She held them gently, as if they were fragile porcelain art objects. In fact, my hands look [...]

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Think “Negatively”

September 5, 2008

When I feel stress, I internalize it. That’s part of “the performer” in me. My mother set an example for me by being “stoic,” and I follow her lead. I can tell you right now that if you try to keep stress bottled up inside, it manifests in your body and can be a pain [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 41. Questions.

May 29, 2008

I haven’t played the Thursday Thirteen meme in a long time, because I’ve been very pre-occupied and self-absorbed lately. Health issues have plagued me (so to speak). I recently related that I have Hepatitis C antibodies in my blood. Lots of folks have been asking me questions. I’m not an expert, and I haven’t seen [...]

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Confidential To Blood Donor

May 23, 2008

Several months ago I went down to my local blood bank to donate platelets. I was trying to bring attention for the need to be tested to donate bone marrow, so that children like Taten Court could get the marrow they need to survive cancer. My attention was brought to something else entirely. I got [...]

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Deflated

March 19, 2008

I got punctured to donate my platelets, and I’m deflated about it at the moment. It didn’t go quite as I had planned. I might not be a very good donor, and I feel like a failure. I was pretty scatterbrained as I headed out the door, and barely remembered to grab a book from [...]

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Back Issues

February 20, 2008

No, I’m not talking about past posts. I’m talking about your back (not really, I’m talking about mine!). You have to be careful about lifting heavy objects. I know that! I know how to lift properly. Yes, I do. I had to learn that more than thirty years ago when I worked in a nursing [...]

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‘S Not My Usual Blog

February 7, 2007

The crowd went wild. More than 150 tiny kindergarteners, who had not had the opportunity to go outside for recess due to drizzly weather, were crowded at my feet. They giggled and clapped at my antics as I told them stories. Because I like the sound of children laughing I was sillier still. I was [...]

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