This being a Sunday and my not knowing what else to say this Sunday morning, I offer a link to a sermon online given on July 28, 2002 by the Rev. Kenneth G. Page. I include this link not because of my own beliefs regarding religion or reconciliation. I offer it as one viewpoint on…
About sending presents when you are estranged …
In the recent communications from my daughter I learned that all gifts, flowers, and cards sent to her in the last 10 years by myself or my mother had been put in the trash. I don’t know what my mother sent to her. I hadn’t sent much as I thought there was a good chance…
Other Estrangements in more distantly related family …
My father-in-law is 81. He worked in computers from the early fifties from when computers were the size of buildings and required lots of cooling equipment to remove all the heat. He was a math genius. He could fly a plane. He had an Indian motorcycle before he married my mother-in-law. He sold the motorcycle…
Logic: When it doesn’t work …
I remember what a friend said to me back in 1997. She said that you can’t "logic it". We had been talking about the behavior of people who had decided to estrange themselves from us and would not reconcile. The behavior made no sense to either of us, neither the decision to estrange nor the…
Graves’ Disease Update
– Tricking the Thyroid into Committing Suicide Some of you may be wondering how things went at the med center where they make you glow or light up or emit radioactivity while you drive home. I asked my husband to come along so in case I was feeling weird or whatever, I’d be sure…
Greeting Cards for People Who Are Estranged
When I stopped in a drugstore the other day to look at greeting cards, I saw some new categories of cards I hadn’t seen before. There was a category of cards that was titled something like: Cards for Troubled Relationships. And then there was a category similarly titled but a separate category called something like…
Graves’ Disease Update
This morning I went in to the medical center to take a tracer pill to start the procedure that will continue tomorrow with a scan of my thyroid gland. The scan will be followed by an assessment of the scan results by the radiology doctors which will determine if and how much radioactive iodine I…
Jennifer Aniston last night on Larry King
I tuned in for the interview and watched the whole show. It was mostly about the movie Derailed that Jennifer Aniston is in with Clive Owen. About acting and celebrity and papparazzi and the desire for a private life. Aniston did not want to talk about recent events in her private life or about private…
Article on Sylvia Plath on Slate.com
I’ve been enjoying reading Slate.com recently. I also have enjoyed reading Salon.com but it takes longer to get into that site and it requires a subscription to make the process shorter. Consequently I read Slate.com rather than Salon.com. One of these days I will subscribe to Salon.com. In doing a keyword search on the word…
Article in today’s Slate.com on children and divorce.
Online article in today’s Slate.com about a book on children and divorce: Putting the Duh Into Divorce The Times and Post mistake the platitudinous for the profound. By Jack Shafer Posted Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 Book Club Entry written in 2000 in Slate.com archives referenced in Shafer’s article of today linked above: A Selection of…