Lulu says hello. Lulu passed away and left her body. Her spirit lives on.
She was around 16 years old. I had lived with her and her doggy self for 15 years and 3 months and 3 days. I loved her deeply. She had strong feelings about me too. She didn’t want to leave and that’s why she stayed around so long, even when she was in pain in the body. She died in her sleep and looked peaceful.
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Gail and I were at the Drive-In. I was driving and Gail was in the passenger seat. It was one of those places where you park, order in your car and they bring it out to you. I ordered cherry limeade and Gail ordered a blizzard, basically a milkshake with candy in it, butterfingers or M&Ms in vanilla ice cream. It was a hot June day and we were thirsty.
When the treats came, I handed Gail hers and I gulped my limeade right away. My dog Lulu was in the back and she paid careful attention to everything that was going on in the front. Gail approached her blizzard slowly, and made sounds of appreciation about the frozen treat as it hit her system. I looked at her ice cream and after my thirst was quenched, that ice cream started to look really good to me. Click to Continue Reading…
Cartoon by Ed Stein
We don’t want to hear it, see it, or feel it. We can’t believe it– $700 Billion Dollars going to bailout Wall Street and we hand over the keys to the vaults. Here, you miserable slime sucking criminals, here is more money than anyone ever accumulated, take the money, wash out this stain, or at least hide it somewhere so we don’t have to see it right now. Don’t you know there’s an election? We have a democracy to fake. We have voting to do and we don’t like this dirty laundry sitting out for all to see.
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