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I was released from the hospital today, after two very long and boring weeks. It took them a while, but they finally discovered two different brain tumors. I see the neurosurgeon at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester in two weeks. 2 Corinthians 4:7-12; 16-18 (NIV) . We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;Continue reading

This is why I stay:I spent all day at the racetrack parking cars, and I get to go to the Indy race now. And it just came over the scanner that there is a tractor fire, in a field. Someday this will all be great material.

Memorial day, and we do Memorial day things. Sweat in the steamy heat, have a family picnic, pound wreaths in the loose dirt above graves. Amazingly, since I’m not working during the Indy Race, I have Memorial Day off. I can’t remember if it’s today that used to be caled Rememberance Day or not.Continue reading

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~James Dean~ ~~~~~~~~ Do small things withgreat love. ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta~ ~~~~~~~~ How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving andContinue reading

Patricia Bennett Age 75 of Ocala, FL, died Monday, May 22, 2006 in Elmira. She was the daughter of the late Lambert Fred “Bill” Pope and Grace Huston Pope Shull, and was born on February 10, 1931 in Oil City, PA. Pat was predeceased by her loving husband of 55 years, Shirley Alan Bennett; andContinue reading

My cousin’s AIM away message reads:“I think I just committed career suicide in order to preserve my dignity.”Must be in the blood.

Jake Frawley, Bobby Welch, and Erin Reynolds. Thank you for reminding me to always choose the harder right over the easier wrong, and that nothing is right if I have to change myself for it…and that sometimes, nothing but life really matters. Even if it means wandering around Sampson Air Force base looking for whiteContinue reading

You’d think the world had ended, judging by the screaming and crying in my household last night out 9:45 p.m. Elliot Yamin had been voted off American Idol, and my pop-culture obsessed teenage siblings had a nervous breakdown. This after Meghan voted over 300 times Tuesday evening after the show. I offered to take herContinue reading

So. I got the job I really, really wanted. You know, the full time one that would enable me to quit Subway and get a real life?Except. The training and orientation is ONLY being offered this weekend, as the trainer leaves for the summer. It won’t be offered again until September. And I can’t takeContinue reading

I am writing a new story. I actually got the idea after watching an episode of 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter, but I am not sure what triggered this idea. Maddie Brooks is sixteen. All she really wants in life is to pass geometry, be asked to the prom, and become famous. Continue reading