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By joan Last updated: Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:26pm PST
  • THE BIG C STRIKES AGAIN

    By joan, on Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:26pm PST

    My goodness, just when I think the world couldn't get any more awful, it does. The big c has struck a relative in what is probably the prime of his life and things don't look good, not at all. He has stage 3 or 4 cancer of the lung, but not really cancer of the lung, it's an… Read More »

  • LOSING A FRIEND

    By joan, on Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:43pm PDT

    One of the hardest things I have ever had to do is watch a longtime friend go through an extended life-crisis (not a midlife crisis, this person is almost 70 years old) and find that everything that I tried to bring this person back into my life has failed. I've tried talking, crying, reasoning… Read More »

  • hot no more

    By joan, on Wed Sep 9, 2009 7:36am PDT

    To all weather people out there, thanks. Make that THANKS! Thank you for the much cooler air, and before anyone corrects me, I know that the weather people don't make the weather, merely report it. They, the talking heads, are my link to current information and so are the ones I blame when… Read More »

  • another week

    By joan, on Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:24am PDT

    Not exactly a gripping title but the best I can conjure up at 7 am in the morning after another almost sleepless night; the raccoons were at it again as was my neighbor. Am I the only one in this neighborhood who has a shred of decency regarding noise after midnight? The raccoons I can understand.… Read More »

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