True Blue

Love is so much more than any words I could write

*** Cliché Alert ***
Caution, clichés and their cousin the stereotype, follow.

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“And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time”

“Wichita Lineman” - Performed by Glen Campbell

A couple of years ago, after being bucked off the marriage bronco again, I relocated to Delaware and started dating.  My dating experience sounded like a version of the old Armour Hot Dog commercial:

Short girls, tall girls, girls with curly locks;
Fat girls, skinny girls, girls who like to watch movies.

Then I met a different girl.  Online.  We chatted a bit and then a lot.  I told her I worked from home while wearing my bunny slippers.  Of course, I didn’t have any bunny slippers but it was funny.

We decided to meet for lunch.  I wasn’t sure what to wear, but I knew what I had to wear.  Thanks to Amazon Prime I had a pair of size 13 bunny slippers at my door minutes before leaving for the restaurant.

Unabashedly I wore them to lunch and made an impression for sure.  And I even think it was a good one!

The girl I came to love is part entertainer, part bartender, part nurse and part mother.  An entertainer who makes me laugh and shares my sense of humor.  A bartender who listens patiently and who can make a mean Manhattan.  A nurse because, well, she’s a retired nurse.  And, she’s a true-blue mama bear who protects her own, me included.

They say that love conquers all.  They say that love is eternal.  They say that love is true and pure.  Well, they’re right.  I can say that love is all that and so much more than any words I could write.

But then…..

“That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say
You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May”

“That’s Life” - Performed by Frank Sinatra

If you saw my last post, you know it’s been a tough week for me.  But there was a very bright spot: the Friday night before we rushed up to Pennsylvania to be with my mom I asked Tracie, my partner in crime, to marry me.

I got down on one knee, started to speak, got a major leg cramp and fell over!  I finished my question on the floor.

Amazingly, she said yes.

💍

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Oat Bran Kills!¹

This edition of Oat Bran Kills goes to the scientists who have now determined that “Baby aspirin no longer recommended to prevent first heart attack in older adults.”

According to The Cleveland Clinic folks without the risk of heart disease or stroke who consume aspirin have a risk of bleeding that may outweigh the benefits of taking a low dose aspirin.

Now, who am I to question medical science?  The problem I have with this is that the media gets ahold of this type of info, publishes (hypes) it and consumers become confused.  Do I take an aspirin or not?  Should I take a baby aspirin or a regular aspirin?  The fact is that doctors should be advising their patients, not USA Today.

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Just in from England… Prince Charles has had his personal Aston Martin converted to run on wine and cheese byproducts in order to cut carbon emissions. 

If only he were Mexican.  I think he’d get better mileage out of bean burritos!

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1. 20 or 30 years ago, Clark de Leon wrote a daily column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. “The Scene” was a lighthearted look at Philadelphia, and society in general. One of Clark’s periodic stories was titled “Oat Bran Kills”, which spoofed science’s never-ending onslaught on established norms. He envisioned that eventually science will determine that one of the healthiest foods, oat bran, is actually deadly.  We see this all the time today where one week eggs are deemed good for you and the next weeks some study says that eggs are poison that must be avoided at all costs.