DoozieLife

My step-mother has been in the hospital a couple of weeks now.  On March 27th, I stopped by ICU to see her (I was on my way to UCSF to see my daughter aftger her surgery), give my two cents worth to her nurses, and brought a collage for her to keep in her room [...]

All week long, I have felt a cold poking around, trying to get past my defenses.  I thought I was winning the battle, and then today I woke up to a scratchy throat, gunk to be coughed up and a throbbing sinus headache. Probably the same thing that the babies dad has been off work [...]

I am a writer, writing my life as it happens.  My mode of writing is this blog.  It is real life, written as it happens.  When you write, this is called transparency – in other words you aren’t hiding behind a shield of made up bull, pretending life is all perfect, or exaggerating how bad [...]

From the time I was a freshman in high school, I have had a job.  My first job was as a Summer Camp Aide at the YMCA in Klamath Falls, Oregon the summer before my Sophomore year.  During the next couple of years, I worked at a snack bar at the local skating rink, worked [...]

California lawmakers remained at an impasse over solving the state’s $24.3 billion deficit Friday as the state controller prepares to hand out roughly $3 billion in IOUs to vendors, low-income seniors and others.