Since my first attack I’m amazed at the number of us who are suffering from gout. How well I remember my first attack. I was in my early forties and I woke this morning with an agonizing pain in my big toe. It was red and it was swollen. My first thought was that I had broken the toe but I couldn’t recall any instance where I had struck it. My visit to the doctor’s office confirmed that I had…
Many of us, living in The Northern Hemisphere, have heard or have said “dying with the flu”. I know I have said it many times. A few of my memories. I was always a pretty good actor especially with my mother. The weather, where we live, can be damp and cold in the fall, spring and winter. As children we wern’t blessed with the best of foot ware or warm clothing. Most of my clothes was handed down from my…
Today I was really impressed with driving habits of a lady who must have been in her eighties. On the other hand, I was flabbergasted by the way another lady. who would have been in her late sixties, was driving. For some reason I’m into the habit of looking for seniors driving safety habits. First of all let me detail the driving of the lady who frustrated me. I think I knew her but I only saw her from behind….
We are the baby boomers generation. I was born in 1948 so I fall into the bracket that was born between 1946 and 1964. This is a photo taken when I was 58 yers old. I have a photo that was taken when I was around two years old. The clothing that I was wearing was made from one of my older sisters winter coats. Those were the days of hand me down clothes, boots and shirts where the collars…
Why, why, why is one word that has followed me from my childhood. I can recall my mother asking me as a young child, “steve, why would you do that,” or when she was really upset, “why did you do that?” Sound familiar! For some reason, as young children, most of us have that built in mechanism where we would try and lie ourselves out of a situation. Even if we knew we did something wrong, we would come up…