At SeaWorld this week, Dawn Brancheau, a 40-year-old orca trainer, was pulled underwater by a 12,000-pound killer whale in front of an audience during a show. It turns out that this whale was involved in two other deaths in the past. This makes me so sad and makes me wonder, why does it seem that the right choices are not made in our world today because making money is all important?
Did the operators think about the luster of money coming in more than the safety of this …

So, what’s up?
It’s been a few days since I’ve posted on our site, I wouldn’t call it writers block, I’d say there’s been too much going on in my life and I can’t decide what to write about, I’ve started about ten different posts and none of them made me happy so I deleted them and turned off the computer thus, today I’m making this short to say I’m here and will write something important soon in the meantime here’s some of things I’ve been doing while not writing on …

For the Love of Family
How often do we say I wish I had spent more time with my family and then another week or month pass by and you think again, no this time I’m going to do it and you never do.
Thus, the story of our lives, we move on do our thing and time passes and you never do what’s really important to you, instead you tread water and get through the days, weeks, months, and yes sometimes years without taking that time to interact with family. …

I plopped down on the sofa to watch the evening news. I’d been in meetings all day and was not up to speed on the day’s happenings when the story came on about an Olympic athlete and the luge. They were talking about the fact that he died, the news was shocking to me. But what shocked me to the point of disbelief was the footage that immediately followed of the young athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili. The footage showed him rounding the corner of the luge …

Are you really here forever?

Every time, I see the commercial for selling expensive jewelry or Hallmark Cards, where the man looks into the eyes of his lover and says I’ll be here forever, I wonder is it true or do the new statistics reflect relationships don’t last as long as we think. The words seem to fit when we say them, and then we grow apart heading in different directions and after five or ten years the breakups are not always nice and most of the time it’s the kids …

 A friend of mine casually mentioned the other day that she was using speedating, a website, to “date.” You get a few minutes to “meet” the other person, on camera. You then decide to meet them or not.
Simple, quick, easy. No commitments. No embarassment. Little risk.
Another friend of mine met her husband-to-be on a web dating site and yet another met his girlfriend (it’s now very serious) on a web dating site.
And then at lunch yet ANOTHER friend told me SHE was using an online dating service!
It used to be …

OK, so while we’re on the subject of knowing about things our kids and grandkids love…let’s talk about Lady Gaga.
It all started with a little buzz over this bleach blonde girl singing a “Let’s Dance” disco tune…then more buzz about the song “Pppppppoker Face PPPPoker Face.”
And then KABOOOOOOM! The whole world is Goo Goo for LADY GAGA!!!!
Her fashions, outrageous, her stage shows, irreverently amazing, her music, catchy as hell….but here’s the thing:
She’s only 23 years old.
She has PIPES, I mean, this girl can SING.
And write music.
And play …

Working Moms have to suck it up
It wasn’t unusual for me to go to my job wondering what it might have been like to not have to work outside my home as I have for the last 30 years, because it was always part of my mantra “soon you’ll win the lottery and life will be simple.”
How often I’d think that thought and dream about winning the lottery so I could be home drinking coffee, deciding what I’d do to please me and be there for my kids, not worrying …

Some readers wanted to know what the Glee video we posted was all about…this is for you GrannieAnnie!  It is a takeoff on the video that Beyonce did that really caught fire.  The Beyonce video was lampooned on Saturday Night Live (in a sketch that Beyonce herself was in), and has become a big hit on the internet with the world (including a video with toddlers doing the dance!).
It is the video that sparked the infamous Kayne West debacle with Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards.
Thanks for the …

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Last night as I sat making jewelry, my daughter (age 23) was playing her music…but something was different.  She was playing current hits and also 50’s music and 60’s music and 70’s music.  My kind of music!
Turns out, she was playing songs from the TV show Glee.
I’ve seen Glee win all of these awards at the Golden Globes and SAG awards but I’d never seen the television show.
Well, consider me informed, thank you to my college-aged kids.
Good old-fashioned fun, yes.  But also serious topics facing our kids such as being …