While following up on stories about the need for more mental health services Embedded Link CCP – Lake County, IL Crisis Care Program (CCP) What is CCP? CCP provides a variety of services to individuals facing a crisis. A mental health crisis could include overwhelming depression, thoughts of suicide, poor concen… Google+: View post on Google+

Cardboard tubes FTW! My doggy-niece Rosie loves cardboard tubes, so now everyone in the family saves them and gives them to her human parents. She would not understand this hedgehog's attitude. Embedded Link Never Speak of This It’s not just kittehs that love captions! ALL THE ANIMALS DO! Check out Animal Capshunz for MOAR! LoL by: MaddyMynah Tagged: embarrassed , stuck , get it off , hedgehog , never mention , toilet paper roll Share on Facebook Google+: View post on Google+

Especially as I belong to a faith community that is so NOT in opposition of gay marriage. I will have to find out from "Faddah Manny" what, if any, official comment I should post on the church blog and Facebook page that I help administer. Embedded Link New vote sought for Illinois gay marriage law — If anyone thought gay marriage legislation would pass easily in Illinois, the initial hiccup Wednesday in the state Senate illustrated how hard-fought the issue is likely to be every step of the way… Google+: View post on Google+

I ran into this paywall thing just the other day – not with a blog, but with the Chicago Tribune. An article I'd like to blog from for the St Nick's blog is now  behind the Trib paywall, and I don't even think my long-standing site login will help get to it. Grrrrr. Embedded Link Someday, Paywalls Are Going to Kill Blogging Andrew Sullivan is leaving the Daily Beast and striking out on his own. (Or re-striking out, I suppose, since he was on his own originally until he began blogging for magazine employers.) For now, his plan is to…

I wonder if my young cousin, who struggled with CF his entire life and died after undergoing a complete heart-lung transplant, might have benefited from this drug or not. I'm happy that the research he and his extended family supported with a local run/walk is finally paying off, and I'm sure he'd be happy for any of his friends that might have benefited from this drug even if he couldn't. Embedded Link Drug Fulfills Promise Of Research Into Cystic Fibrosis Gene The success of Kalydeco, a drug to treat cystic fibrosis, has been decades in the making — since the…

This is one of Dan Bellini's Occupy 'toons, he does them by request. Google+: View post on Google+

Meh, I don't have any photos of me on the laptop, they're all on the desktop… Google+: View post on Google+