This is such a terribly sad time for the World. Today I have cried for everyone for all of us . Chris Cuomo Prime Time tested positive  for the virus  I watch his show every night ..he is such a genuine,  wholesome  Lovely reporter .. he always says  "TOGETHER FOREVER AS ONE" I'm warching him now as he reports from his home  and he is sick. God bless him and help him feel better soon. I know this is a depressing post but that is what life is right now Depressing for all the  front line workers&nb...

hey Bob I see you have a new hat I like it and that looks like a nice coat for keeping warm taking care of the aminals, Best wishes and stay safe

NO THANKS TO those so-called self-driving cars, also rather euphemistically referred to as autonomous cars. Perhaps I’m too much of a control freak when it comes to the art and pleasure of driving. I don’t even use cruise control. When my wife and I go somewhere together, I always drive, unless she’s having to rush me to the emergency room again. Or it could be nothing more than old-fashioned skepticism about a self-propelled deadly weapon with me inside of it. In any event, give me the tried-and-true vehicle that respond...

      Hi there , my name is Eamon , born in The West of Ireland , transplanted to New York ( Bronx ) too many years ago to contemplate . I loved America as soon as I sat in the gigantic convertible on the way from the airport to ...

KIND GESTURES 5. (creating a way) I wish to tell you, if I may, of my walk beside a waterway. This is my walk by winding stream where I relax and dare to dream.  This walk for me is regular, because it is spectacular&n...

Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:23 pm    Perusing practical posts to cover my posterior in pleasing purple perhaps, no Pink or Polyster please  just Manly Budgie Smugglers in Cotton or Hipsters for the Hip .    If it makes the Meat...

When this is over may we never take for granted: A handshake with a stranger Full shelves at the store Conversations with neighbors A crowded theatre Friday night out A routine checkup The school or work rush every morning Coffee with a friend The stadium roaring Each deep breath Life itself When this ends may we find: That we have become more like the people We wanted to be We hoped to be And may we stay that way...... Better for each other Because of the worst! Just, K

Hello. I'm New to all this. Still working out the forums. I've seen people giving so much advice and I'm reading so many blogs. I have a colostomy bag, permanent new addition to my body. Five weeks and counting. I'm not entirely sure how I'm feeling about it yet cause I'm on my 5th cycle of chemo and my emotions are pretty crappy anyway. ( no pun intended) ... to long a story to share so in short, have bowel cancer, tumour very large, had chemo to shrink tumour before surgery. Surgery success, cancer gone, clean up chemo, 3 cycles left to...

Good Afternoon, O'mates~ In the spirit of the Season - and during this year that has been tragic for so many families - rather than mail greeting cards or ship parcels that may end up COVID-contaminated before reaching their destination, I am donating the money I would spend on family and friends to a local food bank, and an animal shelter.  In the continuing effort to stay healthy, I am also asking that my family and friends not send me anything, either, but donate to a charity of their choice. Lily17~ 

First off, I'm a gay man with a very healthy mojo who was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2015. My colostomy was not made permanent and my surgeon has indicated that he will be willing to see if he can surgically remove scar tissue that could poss...

IF SOMEONE WERE to suggest today a new system of criminal justice – a jury trial system – I should think the idea a trifle absurd. Criminal charges and the trials thereon are, after all, serious matters, and deserve serious consideration by truly impartial judges of the facts. A jury of his peers, you say?The proposal, as I imagine it, would be to go out into the community at large and hornswoggle a bunch of unwitting citizens to kill a day or two down at the courthouse listening to testimony from a bunch of purported witnesses...

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  

Hi there Ladies and Gents,  I hope my previous purplish private prose didn't shock or offend any sensitive souls out there . I embellished a bit but not much . I believe we should never pass up an opportunity to make people smile or laugh ...

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...

DECEMBER. For as long as I remember  frosty days of each December  highlight the fact that winter’s come  and the autumn days are done.   Chill winter’s winds will resonate,  plants...

It's said that hindsight is 2020, though 2020 was far from a hindsight let's all hope that 2021 will become more than that. Being a New Year is now approaching let's Pray that the numbers 2021 will become more fun and prosperous for all. Ch...

Having an ileostomy may militate against such activities as joining nudist colonies or performing belly flops off a high board at public pools, but it certainly is no bar to climbing on a motorcycle and heading out on the highway with Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” blasting in your mind. Four years after my surgery, which had been in July, 1964, I climbed on my Triumph, my new wife got on behind me, and we took our honeymoon riding around the State of Florida. Wearing matching drab green fatigue jackets, we drew a few st...

Ok Gang..........in the spirit of Corona......it's time we posted our Cool New Masks (CNM's)!  As usual, I'll go first.  A friend of mine sent me two of these masks this morning........we got our horses at the same time from the same gal (ie, our horses are brothers).   Now let's see what you're wearing these days!   ;0) bob  

“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...

ABDOMEN. I used to have an abdomenlike other fit and active men.Slim, with muscles well definedand symmetrically aligned. Of course, this was a different ageand playing on a different stage.For then, I had the momentumto maintain a healthy tum...

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...