…then I woke up, curled up in the fetal position, in a cornfield in Saskatchewan. <\/p>\n
Yes, I was abducted by aliens a few weeks ago. How else to explain my lengthy absence from the world of Daily Upload?<\/p>\n
No? Not buying that? All right. I guess I can’t really blame you.<\/p>\n
But the part about Saskatchewan, if not the corn field, is kind of true. I have spent some time out there in the last couple of weeks. I was there for my Mom’s 83rd birthday. We had a great party for her and she seemed to have a really good time. I was glad that I had made the effort to fly out there. All the more so since the next day, she had another stroke.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the stroke seems to have affected her memory more than some of the previous ones (she has a history of these TIA’s or mini-strokes.) Right now, a week later, she remembers that she had fun on her birthday, but she doesn’t remember that I was there. Sigh. We’ll just wait and see.<\/p>\n
On a somewhat related note, I don’t know about you, but I’m having a lot of trouble with this whole circus around the Terri Schiavo. <\/p>\n
The “wrongness” of what politicians are doing in the US is overwhelming. I don’t know what the right answer is in that case, but I do know that it is not something that should be played out in public like this. It’s an intensely private, personal tragedy and there’s no way we should be participating.<\/p>\n
Two articles today grabbed my attention as insightful pieces on this controversy, although they come at it from different perspectives.<\/p>\n