At quarter past three this morning, Arizona time, Bernard Bailey passed away.(guest-posted by Karel at Wendi’s request)

Saturday was spent the entire day waiting by the phone. Waiting for a phone call…Waiting for word that my father had finally passed and was at peace. That call never came.I spent the day letting my chat friends distract me. Waiting in dread and anticipation…trying to get things lined up so I could go to [...]

My mom has put the family on 24 hour notice…they expect dad to pass away sometime this weekend. They will be surprised if he makes it to Sunday.If I can pull the money together I will be flying down monday for the funeral.Word to the wise: I’ve been getting all sorts of condolenses and [...]

I talked to my brother today. I asked him how dad was doing, and he said the same thing I’ve been hearing the last week. I asked him if anyone was talking about a time period, cause I need to make sure I have enough money for a plane ticket, and he said two weeks [...]

I have fixed the link to a “Things my girlfriend and I have argued about” It’s now it’s proper link.

The last few days have been strange. I’ve been mostly depressed simply because starting wednesday night, my dad started throwing up his morphine pills. I get a call from my mom at around 11pm to tell me about it and to confirm that I was getting some stuff done she needed.To say the least I [...]

Last night I went on my third date with as many guys. Gentleman number 3 who we will refer to as T, found the profile I had filled out on Yahoo personals. (my AFF one is deleted, details later) He sent me a personal message yesturday and we hit it off from the start. We [...]

Okay, for those of you who may be curious as to how my dad is doing down in Arizona and how his cancer is progressing, here’s an update: From an email of my mom’s.He sleeps most of the time. We have to wake him up to eat and take meds. He eats like a [...]

One of the things that really bugs me about things that excert control in our lives is that they use fear to do it. For some it’s religion…Believe in God or go to hell!For some it’s commercial…Oh my goodness, if you don’t buy the lastest and greatest your LIFE WILL BE WORTHLESS AND YOU’LL NEVER [...]

It’s friday. There is still six inches of ice around my house. I hear the roads are nearly clear but I live on an unimproved road. We’re the last to lose any ice or snow because of it. Origionally I was to have had a lunch date this week. Fat chance of that happening today. [...]