Through the power of the Internet, I’ve been able to get a copy of a picture of a lovely young thing named Marella Stockdale. She’s the second from the left – that’s my mama. I will be working on this image a bit to clean up the edges – but I wanted to get this up. When I called Mom tonight we were talking about old friends and long-ago family memories. She told me the tale of the allegedly “hot” turkey that wandered up the alley behind the family home in Colorado Springs, and how she and her sister Ginny…
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Saw an item at Tennessee Guerilla Women about the upcoming Easter Egg Roll at the White House. It seems this year that Laura Bush invited all families – even gay ones. Goodness. Wish I could be there to see the fun when the kids are squabbling over the last chocolate egg and the nice white right Christian parents are edging away from the pairs of mommieses and daddieses. By the way, I’m more inclined to think this might be Rumsfeld’s next career move. UPDATE: It seems the event was a success in spite of rain – no hitches, very low-key,…
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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders This is the last paragraph of the first chapter: Freud taught our generation the importance of parental love. We know that parental love is formative, but no one has taught us about the importance of grandparental love. Especially as we get older, the bonding and nurturing go both ways. Connections help our children, our parents, and us, now and in the future. Only by caring for our parents will we be able to ask our children for help later. And only because of our children’s love of the old will they…
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Pendant Transmitter Button For Your Medical Alarm – Shop At Alert One? With this system, you can receive incoming phone calls – and it’s waterproof, so the pendant or wristband can be worn in the shower or bath. Battery lasts 3-5 years. Discreet and private – no one needs to know you’re wearing it.
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My team leader pointed me in the direction of an interesting article in the Sunday Times about technological solutions to the problem of looking after elders who need a little extra help so they can stay in their own homes as long as practicable. My husband David might find some of the really high-tech stuff interesting, but I’m more interested in the simple, least intrusive solutions. Personal autonomy and empowerment are important, in my view. I’m not interested in an electronic nanny or a computerized tattletale system. Chicago Tribune | Keeping track of Dad Clearly the biggest worry associated with…
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Don’t mind me, I’m just gathering links here. Nothing to see. ::whistles:: I heard a story on NPR about a new philosophy behind elder care a while back, and now I’m trying to run it down. So I’m going to gather a variety of links that may be useful later on. It’s not this one, it was more recent: NPR : Assisted Living vs. Nursing Homes, Housing First Doctors Share Their Woes Caring For Aging Parents Senior Health: Overcoming Fears of Falling NPR Search: Senior Health FOUND IT at last: this is the story I remember hearing last summer: Reformers…
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Blah, blah-blah, blah-blah, blah-BLAH. The excellent Fox News Alert! Theme Music is available for your listening and freaking out pleasure, courtesy of Joey. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Theme Music for “FOX News Alert”
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BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin gets around, finally, to making this observation: “We are being lied to.” Yep, we sure are. Finally, several days after I first heard part but not all of it, here is the link to This American Life’s Guantanamo report, “Habeas Schmabeas.” This is the one where part of it, in explanation of the origin of the legal concept of habeas corpus, entails a visit to Westminster Abbey. I was wrong about the guide, his name is Tony, and thus is not the same one we had when we visited the Abbey year before last. And remember, the…
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Huffington Post, that haven for lefty slebs, has a new blogger, and I say “Right on, right on, see you at the barricades.” The Blog | George Clooney: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It! | The Huffington Post The fear of (being) criticized can be paralyzing. Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the run up to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were saying, where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden? What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? We knew it was bullshit. Which is why it drives me…
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Oh, boy! Time to infect (or re-re-reinfect ) my husband David with The Geek Rivalries Meme! Star Trek or Babylon 5? Tough one. Very tough. Although Trek informs a lot of my SF psycho-DNA, B5 never betrayed my trust by making me shell out the ducats to watch Drek VII: Teh Resurrection Wot Shunt’a Been. My mind says B5, my heart longs for chest-thumping Kirk and cerebral Spock. In the end, I have to say Trek. I miss not having it to watch (and occasionally, mock) on TV anymore. Because Enterprise, the most recent entry, was just starting to pick…