Archive for June, 2010

• No good deed goes unpunished

  Thursday, June 17th, 2010

  I am sure that when Dan Coyne donated his kidney to Myra de la Vega, a single parent he hardly knew, he never expected the fall out he has gotten.   Coyne is a teacher in Evanston Ill. and the people there have declared him a hero. The school there even had a day specially [...]

• Lavish gift does not a good father make

  Sunday, June 13th, 2010

  Martin Bashsir while interviewing P Diddy on his $350,000 automobile gift to his sixteen year old son, was met with the answer that he could give his kid what ever he wanted to. Now that was not the question. The question was how appropriate was this gift?   As a single parent who often bought [...]

• Bad luck my freaking #$%!

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  Sorry for the expletives but this article has put color in my pale face which is now red with anger. An eighty-three year old man went into the hospital for a gallbladder surgery and ended up having his kidney removed! I will admit that my many years as a nurse wasn’t spent in the operating [...]

• Enough is enough

  Friday, June 4th, 2010

  In my sixty plus years the absurdity of life has struck me in the worse way. Because people choose to champion the most ridiculous causes. I know they think they have a stalwart cause, but enough is a enough! It is again the time of the year when young people around the country head off [...]