Better Living? Part 5 Swallowing it Still
October 21, 2010 Better Living? Agreed but Still Skeptical So I googled ‘trileptal & alcohol.’ It took me a while to even find their interaction mentioned on all of the websites that came up. You never know which are written by the pharmaceutical companies themselves, and which are government funded supposedly ‘objective’ sources anyway. The […]
...read moreBetter Living … Part 4 – Agreed but Still Skeptical
October 20, 2010 I’d been on “The Medication” only three weeks at the time of my ‘follow-up’ with the doc-tor. The MD Psychiatrist I let ‘evaluate me.’ The old guy. I told him about my initial reluctance, and he assured me the side effects listed on pharmacy printouts were printed for liability reasons, affected only […]
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Blushing Barefoot Burlesque
What a weekend! First the Beach Boys on Friday night, and then Saturday I won tickets on our favorite radio station K-P-I-G, for a show at The Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz called Smitten. It was billed as Blushing Barefoot Burlesque by twenty lovely ladies from Garberville CA. Couldn’t be bad we told ourselves. The […]
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Me at a Beach Boys Concert? Nah …. Oh no, Ye-ahh!
I woke up with the tune of this Beach Boys song running through my head: “Help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda Help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda Help me Rhonda, get her out of my hea-rrt.” Now I probably hadn’t heard a Beach Boy’s song on the radio in years, and I don’t […]
...read moreNewspaper Headline: Eight Year Old Escapes Abduction!
O-mi-god! “That could’ve been Anne” my mind raced as I read the newspaper this morning about a kidnapping incident in the town she lives in. But, I told myself, my beautiful blonde haired blue eyed grandchild would never have let herself be seduced away from a game she was playing with her friends. She would’ve […]
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Pat’s Rising New Career – Stand-up Comedy
I did it! ‘had 200 crones (a.k.a. older women) rolling in the aisles! Without much training or preparation either. ‘cept knew I follies was coming and kept scribbling notes on 3×5 cards all week. ‘Aging Positively – Question Mark’ was my second stab at stand-up, the first being ‘Living Life Lubricated,’ two years ago same […]
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Flooding Back East & A Talk w My Grandkid!
Last week as I sunbathed and swam in the 82-degree sunshine in Albuquerque, New Mexico altitude 6000,’ my i-phone had those tiny pictures of rain in New York on it when I checked the weather. When I came home on the train it was 113 in LA! This isn’t about what we HU-mans have done […]
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