Greetings All... As a new member to this site I have to say I've been really impressed with all the helpful information, suggestions and encouragement provided by so many of you in this community!Participating on this site will be a rather different experience for me in that I have never got involved in the social media scene, the Facebooks, Twitter's etc. - should be interesting I am sure. A bit about myself...I am a cancer survivor, or so my oncologist tells me - having completed the full regimen of radiation, chemo-X2 and lastly surge...

KIND GESTURES 7. (keeping going) I’d like now to compile a rhymeto capture this moment in time,when most of us are in lockdownand ‘normal’ things are upside down. I’d like to pay a tribute tothose folks who work to help...

IN UTAH WE HAD five cats and four bird feeders. Three of those cats regularly caught birds. Because I love birds, each one of these deadly episodes left me pondering the morality of it all, not to mention whether I was criminally liable as an aider and abettor. Usually the birds were too quick for the cats, but once or twice a week…. GOTCHA! The messy eating habits of the birds made all this possible. I’m not blaming the birds… I’m just saying. The blue jays perched upon the feeders and swiped their bills across ...

It has recently come to my attention, on this very website, that some of you – people that I previously assumed were reasonable, serious people – have actually assigned human names to your stomas. Really?? You have named your stoma?? I’ve had this ileostomy since effin 1964, and it has never occurred to me to do such a thing. I must say, with all due respect, that I find this to be perhaps the grossest, most flagrant act of anthropomorphistic nonsense ever. I’m assuming that these are the same ones of you that, upon...

The year 2020 has been an unpredictable ride through world politics, the pandemic, numerous protests and many more difficulties that had made living life quite hard for most. Let us embrace 2021 with much-needed hope and happiness. Just, K.  

  Tried to make mom's pumpkin strudel, it was good the but just not the same.

Hello all, Do any any of you have the stoma directly across from your belly button? How in this world do you all get rid of the hair around the stoma? I look forward to the information any of you can provide.

I offer you this vision since uploading a photo was just too much. I shake my head and wonder what is happening to my southern neighbor in these tough times ... and now this.  Which bothers you more - Colin Kaepernick kneeling at an NFL game or the cop kneeling on George Floyd?  I am lost for words - which may be a good thing. I know one thing for sure; I would be a protester. Just saying ...  Karen  

  Charles, a new retiree-greeter at Wal-Mart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time. Every day he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp-minded and a real credit to the company and obviously demonstrating their "Older Person Friendly" policies. One day the boss called him into the office for a talk. "Charles, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do a bang-up job when you finally get here, but your being late so often is quite bothersome." "Yes sir, I know, and I am wo...

THE FIRST HOUSE that I ever owned was on a one-block long dead-end street. It was, in fact, the last house on the right. With small children and cats, it was the perfect spot for us. The only traffic on the street was the people who lived there and, being at the very end, we didn’t even get that. I suppose, had we been in a more upscale neighborhood, it would have been called a cul-de-sac. Had it been a less classy neighborhood, perhaps the sign would have said No Exit. Me and the guy across the street eventually suffered contemporan...

LATER TODAY I’m scheduled to get my second vaccine shot (Moderna). The first one, four weeks ago, resulted in no reactions whatsoever. The vaccine here is being distributed by the county health department. I was surprised at how efficient and organized they were. Upon arrival the first time, there was a line of cars a mile long, but it moved along rather well. Health Dept. reps were out distributing forms, checking paperwork, verifying ID and that your name was on the appointment list, answering questions, going from car to car, and ...

“When did the future switch,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters, “from being a promise to being a threat?” That’s exactly the state of affairs into which the USA has been led by the dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, Twitter-souled Donald Trump. We face today the certainty of chaos in November, attended by rightwing violence, and it appears there is nothing that anyone can do to forestall it. Deranged heads of state always end badly but, unfortunately, the nation falls to its knees with them. It disgus...

Someone told me that Valentine's Day doesn't apply to people that don't have a special other . I DISAGREE totally . I think Valentine's Day can be celebrated simply by sharing a happy smile or gesture or whistles back to the birds . So , with that said... to all you singles out there ...It's our day too 👏🥰 Have A Happy Valentine's Day ❤️🌈❤️👌 Smiles and love to you all , RITZ 

YOU CAN’T PLEASE EVERYONE and if you could, what fun would that be? Recently I received a post comment from a person who wondered “what do you do all day besides writing on here” [there was no question mark]. My feeling was that the tone of the inquiry was rather negative and disapproving, as if to say… haven’t you anything better to do? The person seemed to think that, since I post something every day, I must spend all day doing it. So I thought for a moment about how much time each post takes on the average...

Howdy folks,   Ok, so this virus crap isn't going away anytime soon, so it looks like masks will continue to be required fashion thru the hottest part of summer.  Has anyone found a really good mask?  I don't mean good enough......they're all that.....I mean one that you actually don't mind wearing.  I've tried a number of types and still haven't found any one to standout.  So I'm hoping one of you guys has stumbled onto, or made, something that does the job and isn't a total nuisance to wear.  If you have......