I spent 2 years in Tucson in the '50s. I grew up in NY and was sent out there to help cure a serious asthma condition. Despite missing a great deal of time from school in NY, I was never sick a single day in Tucson.
Some of my great memories include, Sahuaro school which was a boarding school for asthmatics, the Hidden House ice cream parlor, Hi-Corbett field, Saturday matinees, A Mountain, the Pago Pago restaurant and the Cleveland Indians spring training games.
I also lived on N....

This is a big day in the state of Texas, as today marks Texas Independence Day. On March 2, 1836, Texas declared its independence, breaking from Mexico to form its own republic, paving the way to becoming a U.S. state in 1845. Different celebrations will be taking place in a variety of places throughout the state today and this weekend.



And they'll especially be celebrating...

My vacation may have already started, but I've still got unfinished business from earlier in the week, so I intend to get this thing done before it escapes my mind completely. And I'm not even supposed to be thinking about work right now when there are better, more important things for this writer to think about. Things like leisure, for example.

I'll get to that in another post. But I can't get over one good thing that happened at work earlier in the week...

1 Peter 5:7 - Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.- 1 Peter was written by the Apostle Peter, one of Christ's original disciples to Christians in the northern provinces of Asia Minor to encourage them during a persecution. In 5:7 Peter invites them to "take out the trash" by putting ALL their troubles, concerns and worries on Jesus Christ and letting him take care of them. And it's no different today. We all have "trash" we'd like to get rid of, and Jesus will...

Im finally home...

I told the Doctors when they had thier meeting on Wednesday, that I wanted OUT!

I also brought up that the one Doctor didnt reduce the steroid as he promised me to 10 from 15. He said he was 'off' those days, (very convenient if you ask me, but, Im not holding that against him, only that the other Doctor should have known that he was supposed to reduce it, because I told him that the Doctor promised me, sheesh).

When the Doctors start...