Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day My son came home from school and told me that he was so grateful for Martin Luther King Jr. “Mommy, did you know that if he didn’t tell people to be nice to each other, that I wouldn’t have any black kids at my school? I’d only be with other white kids.” Hmmm. I like his “gratefulness,” I think, although I’ve never known him to use that word before. I like that he instinctively…
My step-son (Evan aka Kaotick aka Kaotic) has put up a MySpace page in preparation for his radio debut on an Atlanta hip-hop station later this month. Too bad they wouldn’t allow the best song: “ooo, baby, how was I to know you were a …”
Roy Walter N. Jr Nov 5, 1935 – Dec 28, 2003 Miss you, Daddy. Mourning is not forgetting. It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. – Margery Allingham
Stay warm, stay bright! Visit my Christmas/Yule/Mistletoe page. I’m on a blog break getting ready for the holidays. Be back soon!
My grandmother, whose 90th birthday will be this March, was admitted into the hospital with congestive heart failure. She lives alone. She suddenly started to feel very weak, and was smart enough to ask a neighbor to take her to the doctor – who immediately admitted her to the hospital. She’s had major heart surgery, so this is a big deal. She seems to be doing all right at the moment, but that was a big scare. I’m not sure…
I’ve been cleaning and reorganizing the house. We are about ready to do some minor renovations and repairs. I had a list. Had. Yes. But you see, there was this little problem. Our alarm system has been acting funny since we got back. Going off at 3 am, not responding to a turn-off command. We are really, really popular with our neighbors at the moment. We weren’t able to get our protection company to come over and service the thing…