WHAT’S LOVE ALL ABOUT?
Love and marriage are masterpieces of God’s creative plan. Two people with different personalities, backgrounds and gifts enter into a love relationship that makes them one. It’s as old as the Garden of Eden, where the first wedding contained words that have been part of marriage ceremonies ever since: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Some marriages are enjoyable. Others are contests of quiet (or very loud) desperation where both husband and wife are trying to somehow endure to the end; sometimes to bitter [...]
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Firsts
rancesco Schettino who was Captain of the Costa Concordia when it ran aground in Italy remains under house arrest. He’s charged, or potentially charged, with leaving his ship while the crew and passengers were still aboard. Is it a crime to do so? I’d be surprised if the Italian government didn’t come up with a crime of some sort after the embarrassment caused by the entire incident. That’s the way governments are. Maybe they’ll make it a crime not to go down with your ship. That would be tough to do when your ship doesn’t go down, but just lays [...]
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Robbing one’s memory- Alzheimer’s is the worst
I can’t imagine living my last years with Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately that’s what my mother is experiencing. I would guess she has had it for 7 years. The onset occurred while she was living with my father in Florida. Amazingly none of her five children knew. My father had become her fulltime caregiver, all the while hiding my mother’s condition from friends and family. When he died two years ago, my mother’s condition became worse. We had to place her in a memory care facility in Lansing. Since then it has been a long and torturous ride as she has continued [...]
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Getting old means meeting lots of new people
I’ve been getting to know a bunch of new people this year – lab technicians, x-ray technicians, nurses, doctors, receptionists… It has definitely been my year to be poked and prodded. It all started with my 65th birthday. As soon as I was eligible for Medicare, I think my warranty ran out. Little things started popping up. For about a year, I was slowly losing weight, a pound here, a pound there, and, prodded not too gently by the family, I went in for a check- up. A tendency to get bronchitis a couple times every year didn’t help the [...]
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I’m not absent-minded – it’s gremlins
It has been that kind of week. You know what I mean. The kind where you lose something and then find it right in front of you… I just spent about a half-hour looking for my memory sticks – thumb drives I keep all my news on by week. It wasn’t in my purse, on the desk, on the floor or in the wastebasket. I even called the office to see if I had left it there. No luck. Just when I had decided I would have to start over again and had lost all of my stuff (about [...]
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