This blog – along with most of my other leisure internet activities – have taken a back seat recently, because I’ve been working on a new project. I’m helping our local newspaper (The Grafton News) build a website. This is a difficult time for printed newspapers. The extinction of newspapers across the US has been [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
5 Things you need to know about Obama’s Public Health Insurance Option
The choice of a public health insurance plan is crucial to real health care reform. But right now, it’s being smeared by conservatives and insurance-industry front groups. Here’s what you really need to know: 1. Choice, choice, choice. If the public health insurance option passes, Americans will be able to choose between their current insurance [...]
President Obama’s speech at the Correspondent’s Association Dinner
President Obama drew laughs at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, taking jabs at his administration, his Republican rivals and himself. Embedded video from CNN Video
Mother’s Day 2009
Mother of the Year Award I’d like to thank the Academy for this prestigious award. I am humbled and honored by this recognition. I’d like to thank my friends and family who have helped me along the way. They know who they are. I’d like to thank my husband for his support, and my doctor [...]
Birthday Celebrations
Happy Birthday to my oldest friend Nancy! Well, she is not really THAT old, but we’ve been friends for a very long time. Her mother used to take her by the hand over to my house to play, which was just around the corner. We went all through school together, we both became nurses and [...]
Happy Birthday Anthony!
Today – May Day – is Anthony’s 16th Birthday and also his official adoption day. He was only 6 years old when we first found him in a foster home in NYC. He was heading to a residential placement and we were looking to adopt, so the timing was right for all concerned. Anthony fit [...]
