Found: Virgin Pack of American Spirits- June 21, 2008 July 4th will be my FOUR YEAR anniversary of quitting smoking. Holy Cow! Most of you who read me were there when I quit. I languished over having to quit for the first two years. Every day, every mile. OH how I missed my best friends. OH how I fiddled and gnashed teeth in those early days.I quit for 4 years once before in my life - the day Bill Clinton was elected President (first term) was my first quit date. I quit for four years then too. Then on one night in one fit of one bit of...http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/found-virgin-pack-of-american-spirits.html a face- June 21, 2008 The big diseases have faces. The big organs have faces. Your heart, your kidney, your lungs, even your breasts -- they're the Big News body parts.They have celebrity faces that get attention. And because they get attention, they get money. And because they get money, they attract talented young researchers who dedicate their lives beating the disease or figuring out the organ. And because they get talent, more people survive, get well, watch their kids grow up, are free from pain.Pancreatic...http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/face.html You had to be there...- June 16, 2008 ...to know why this made me cry. I'm so happy Gary is back.Meanwhile, I'd offer to take some of doc's extra morphine, but last time i had that shit in the hospital they had to stop me from itching my back raw with my dinner fork.---http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/you-had-to-be-there.html I Got Your Market Hangin'- June 10, 2008 been there, still there.--http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-got-your-market-hangin.html breaking bread, building bridges- June 9, 2008http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/breaking-bread-building-bridges.html The Day of the Numerican- June 7, 2008 This story is unique and yet ubiquitous. It is one too often left untold because it is unfolding in real time in families across America. Our family history is written forward, yet linked back to the legacy of slavery.John Lee Harris says of the Numerican Nation:"In as much as we are not immigrants, in the traditional sense of the word, I prefer to think of us as the Numerican Nation: A spiritual people borne of slavery."And he writes: Ive postulated that our familys identity is inextricably...http://allied.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-of-numerican.html |