Diana Marich 1930 - 2025 The world lost a real firecracker; for Nancy, Joe, and me, we lost a Mom.   She was loud, stubborn, committed to her husband, and daddy’s little girl. She was the sergeant at arms for the neighborhood, keeping all us kids in line, and protected, from others that might not have been as happy as she to have us playing in the street where she could keep an eye on us all.   Mostly she had rules. Oh, they were nonsensical and arbitrary. They exasperated us

I've never understood how someone could murder a family member. Until now. There is no way for me to tell this without making myself look very bad but I feel there must be others out there in the same situation that I can help. As many of you are aware, we are taking care of my mother who is under the care of Hospice while now living with us. She could no longer take care of herself alone so we did what family does and we brought her over to our house where we could keep an e

For those that have been asking, an update on my mother... After her third fall in three weeks being on her own, Linda and I made the decision that she needed 24 hour attention and so we have moved her in with us. She continues to slowly move towards her inevitable conclusion but unless she makes a remarkable recovery, we are talking about weeks. Our goal is to make her as comfortable as possible with the help of hospice. Thanks to all that have expressed their best wishes an

I don't know about you all, but we get thirty phone calls a day from various companies wanting us to listen to their pitch on changing our Medicare advantage coverage to whatever crap they are pushing. It is annoying and I feel like crawling through the phone and choking the liar on the other end. But that is not what this is about today. Well, it is about Medicare in a sense. It is also about Social Security, insurance costs, and the rest of our out of control world revolvin