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The issue of caring for those with mental illness is once again in the headlines because of the recent tragedy in Arizona. Unfortunately, as most mental health advocates and families with affected members are already all too aware, this little dustup over services available will soon fade, as will any bump in funding it creates. It will stay faded until the next tragedy. Then the cycle will again kick in.

The problems inherent in dealing with people with mental illness are multiple and often can seem insurmountable. For starters, this is a chronic illness that is never “cured”. It can

Thanks to the perseverance and inner strength of my friend Elaine, I now have something to wear to the family wedding and rehearsal dinner. Got it at the one store we went to in less than 90 minutes including commuting time because she is just that good about knowing exactly what I will or won’t even try on. And now I can take a deep breath and relax. For what these cost me, I have the two outfits I will be alternating between for every family affair from now to my cremation… and please cremate me in BOTH of them.

In winter, you have to plan your activities very carefully. Always do any chores that involve being seen in public BEFORE you take a walk in your parka. Hood hair is not something to be shared with anyone but your most intimate of friends.

those bills where you have to detach and return a portion of the bill with your remittance and the perforated line is about .0005 inches below where the bill was folded and you have to figure out how to tear on the perforation and not the fold or the address won’t show up in the window properly. GEEZ!

Went to the Animal Pet Food Warehouse near me and made a donation to those starving dogs out in the Mat Su. Wish I could have made a donation to have someone chain that breeder up and leave him eating his own feces for a few weeks. Wonder how much he would have felt like breeding after that.

I have birds that are, by any standards, living a very good life. They get fresh food, water and veggies every day. They are in clean, spacious cages with access to big picture windows yet each has a corner to which they can retreat if something seems scary. I work out of my home which means I am here with them all day. The TV or radio is always on for their amusement.

Yet when I ask them to spend one day in a different room in a smaller cage so they are not affected by paint smells, they act

I have furniture to give away to charity… furniture in good shape and very usable… and I have now spent two weeks trying to find someone other than the Salvation Army to give it to with no luck. I never thought it would be so hard to give something away. And until the Salvation Army accepts gays as full human beings worthy of full respect and equal hiring opportunities, they won’t be getting this stuff. I’d bring it to the dump first.

It’s been a rough week for America. We sometimes get so caught up in our passion over our country and the direction we think it should take that our language gets away from us. Then tragedy strikes and we are overcome with a wave of remorse for anything we may have said or done to imply to anyone that this kind of action is acceptable in America as a solution to the issues that divide us.

There is a lot of anger welling up against the Tea Party in general and Sarah Palin in particular. I think we need to

Apparently intense pain coupled with heavy duty pain killers destroys any and all of the little creativity I might have once had. Tomorrow’s column should be very interesting. Let’s see if I can NOT write about how miserable I still feel. 

you can do one of two things. Stick your hand in boiling water or get a bacterial infection in the right something something sinus on your face and ignore it for three days on the assumption it will get better all by itself. It won’t. And by the third day, I’d have told the Nazis anything they wanted.