Spring

Spring is coming at me to quickly! It seems to drag it's muddy feet and I think that I have all of the time in the world to get things done and then WHAM! I am trying to play catch up!

Soon Easter will be here. There will be at least 10 people coming from Michigan. It will be a frenzy and then complete quiet. We really look forward to everyones arrival and enjoy them all while they are here. There is always plenty of laughter and hilarity. Then a few days after Easter Sunday everyone gets in their cars and within a moment the world is quiet and boring and maybe even a little bit depressing.

The health bill passed

The health bill passed! Now what? I guess now what depends on who you listen to. Some say this bill is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Others say that it will be the downfall of this country. Both sides seem to have valid arguments. I don't see how taxes won't eventually be raised to pay for this and I am terribly disappointed that there was no public option to help control the insurance companies. They remind me of a bunch of sharks on a feeding frenzy in the middle of a school of minnows.

blogging again

A friend asked me the other day why I stopped blogging. I guess that I just didn't have anything much to say. I have decided to start up again.
I recently discovered Facebook and have really enjoyed poking around there. Most of my older grandkids are there and I can keep in contact with them. Both of my daughters are there also. There is an area dedicated to finding high school or college classmates and I have been in contact with several of them after locating them on Facebok. Some of these classmates have recent photos of themselves. It's hard for me to understand how I remained so young looking and these other people have gotten so old looking. :?) It's only been forty nine years since graduation.

On another note: My wife asked me if I thought much about the posibility of the cancer returning. I told her that I think about it everyday. It is the elephant in the room! I do not dwell on it however. Mostly it is a passing thought which I put out of my mind. I live my life one day at a time. I read something the other day in a novel. This old woman advised her daughter to look at everything as if she were seeing it ffor the first or laast time. I really liked that piece of advice. I live my life one day at a time. I have found that the birds sing louder; The grass is greener; and the flower colors are much more vibrant when I live like this.

I recently read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. This novel was written in 1943 and is a historical novel about a girl who grew up in poverty in Brooklyn near the turn of the century. I had heard of this book over the years but had never read it. WOW! What a great book. I highly recommend it.