Archive for December, 2005

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Here’s to a wonderful holiday season to each and every one of you! Hold your family and friends close - they are immeasureably more important than presents or the hussle and bussle of holiday shopping and preparations. But a great meal holds everyone together especially the favorite dishes every one expects at this […]

I. Hyman Weiland, M.D., Ph.D 1921 - 2005

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

I believe this will be the most difficult post I will ever compose for my blog but write it I must.

My husband of 35 years passed away on December 8. He was 84 and had been residing in a nursing home for almost 18 months. He was terribly frail and very confused most […]

BOMB SNIFFING WASPS!

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

It was reported on KFWB, a local news station, that research is being done in Georgia to train bomb sniffing wasps! This particular species of wasp does not sting humans (I hope), can be trained in five minutes and is as sensitive to smell as dogs. It is possible that the training could […]

“YESTERDAY” A STUNNING FILM!

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Last night I stumbled upon a stunning film called “Yesterday” directed by Darrell James Roodt, the first Zulu-language film to be released internationally. It is about Yesterday, a young mother’s brave, elegant and magnificent struggle to raise her daughter in a poor African village after she learns she is HIV positive. Yes, that […]