All posts dated August 6, 2005

_His_ best friend, that also moved out here from California, has an Uncle Doyle (don’t we all? even if his name is not neccessarily Doyle). Uncle Doyle McCluskey of Vallejo, is a fighter. He’s fighting an uphill battle, though. And unfortunately, he’s slowly losing. But as Dale typed, Uncle Doyle: p=. _is a fighter._ For…

Well, yahooey! We just popped up to 11 sponsors, for _drumroll_ ……………….. $206 in pledges! p=.

Another dear friend, wendy, is one of the stories where she has had 3 people in her family experience cancer. Her grandpa’s is prostate cancer and grandma’s is intestinal cancer. And her mom had cervical cancer, and later some spots of melanoma popped up that they were also able to get out of her. I…

Me : What do you have to say about cancer? _Him_ : What do i have to say about cancer? There’s a long pause….. He grins (as he looks down and realizes that I am typing this.) _Him_ : ahhhhhhhhh……It sucks the life outta you. There is a long pause again I start to wonder…

In the dark, cool, summer evening air. Protected by both bug spray and my wonderful “screen retreat.”:http://starzabove.com/2005/05/20/my-retreat-from-mosquitoes With my beautiful daughter leaning on my shoulder, and the cricks of crickets and the chirps of the cicada’s in the background. Yes, you’ve guessed it, another _Life is good_ post. We have to have them, in between…

Have a special memory with a friend? A good one? How about a bad one that you look back at fondly now and laugh about? Like the time your friend visits from the great PacNorWest, used to mild temps (to say the least), where they don’t even have a/c as a rule. And you are…

You know I’m too tired when I’m too tired to knit! Any stay-awake-suggestions? They are watching “Lara Croft Tomb Raider”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0146316/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1sYXJhIGNyb2Z0IHRvbWIgcmFpZGVyfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=10;fm=1 – and it’s making me even more sleepy!

I talked on the phone today with a dear, childhood friend of mine, Julianne – the one that visited us out here for a few weeks this summer. When we talked about me doing this blogathon, of course, it brought up the close incidents of cancer brushing across her life. Her husband Rick, lost his…

So, tell me, what are you doing right now? We just finished a turkey dinner. Some are watching a movie. Some are playing a computer game. Me? I’m blogging. Blogging for a great cause. I’m FINALLY about to start knitting. I _might_ have the girls each make a post for the next two, so that…

Suz and I share a lot in common, but both of us losing a dear Grandmother around the same time wasn’t something we neccessarily wanted to share. Suzie’s gramma had been sick for a long time, but what finally took her life? You know. I don’t have to say it anymore. Watching the life slip…