To Howard Chittenden….

My Great-Grandfather died of Lung Cancer very young. My Mother’s most prominent memories of him is sharing an orange soda with him in the hospital when she was four, and also seeing him sitting in his leather recliner in his living room. Although I never knew him, my family is always (or almost always) ready…

My Grammie Hopper

p=. Dorothy Eva Bell – Wife, Mother, Sister, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Friend, Angel March 16, 1915 – January 24, 2003 She was there from my beginning, I was there till her end. I’m going to go into the story more, later, hopefully. This is a tough one for me. We supported “ACS”:https://www.cancer.org/asp/donate/don_multi_donate.asp?navToScreen=don_1 in the “Relay for…

Blogathon ‘2005 Begins

Well, I’m here. That’s about all I can say at this hour (if you know me at _all_ ). I’m not a coffee drinker, and I’m NOT a morning person! Hoooooooo Hoooooooooooo! Yep, that’s me. I had _such_ a hard time falling asleep. Finally did, _a couple of hours ago!_ So, if you wanna pitch…

I should be sleeping

In anticipation of the “Blogathon”:http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php?campaign&id=168 tomorrow I _should_ be sleeping, but alas, not me. Not the night owl. The insomniac. My sleeping patterns are so horrible and unpredictable and affected by so many things. Well, anyhoo, just in case you didn’t know, you can go “HERE”:http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php?campaign&id=168 and click on REGISTER and sign-in to make a…