Archive for November, 2007

Prison

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Henry here. Boys will be boys we say when boys are rambunctious. So we excuse a broad range of behaviors. We may not entirely approve of it, but for boys it is fairly normal, but sometimes it goes overboard.

A newspaper article datelined London England says that a judge sentenced five boys to two years […]

King Tut’s Wife

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Good day, Henry here. King Tut’s body was finally revealed recently as archeologists carefully unveiled him, 85 years after Howard Carter first discovered his tomb with its fabulous riches.

Like almost everybody else, I have read various articles about Tut over the years which were all interesting but really had nothing to do with me. Then […]

Strokes

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Strokes are everywhere. My mother had a stroke which eventually killed her in her 79th year which wasn’t old for a family who lived into their 90s.

I worked in a huge 1000 bed nursing home on Long Island where many patients had strokes, and were incapacitated. My mother-in-law had a stroke and never recovered.

Six years […]

Been Through Hell

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Henry here. As the old WWII vet began to talk on the TV about the landing on D-day and the loss of his comrades, he began to cry. Over and over I have seen similar incidents of soldiers who are overcome with emotion when they let their feelings emerge about the war.

As I watched the […]

The Evil Spirits

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Henry here today. The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Glen Race who is charged with three cross border killings is getting sicker without his medication. He is being held in a prison in New York and apparently not being treated for his paranoid schizophrenia. He is not getting appropriate medication and in addition he is […]