If a person has pets, the lessons never stop coming. As a child, Elaine was never without dogs in her house. As a point of interest, when I met Elaine her family had four dogs, Schwartz, Lizzie, Liesel, and PJ. My family gave away the family dog when they moved to town from the farm. (I was four years old.) My parents lived dog free until I was in seventh grade when they brought Cherie home, a chocolate brown miniature poodle, with the personality of an alligator fighting

This is the city, Fort Collins, Colorado. Dum-di-dum-dum. It's 5:30 AM and my partner (Elaine) and I are cruising East-mid town in search of polyps. Dum-di-dum-dum. Elaine and I had been instructed to meet with a lady name Hallie on Lemay Ave. Dum-di dum-dum. Halllie was a young attractive lady in a nurse's outfit. Hallie asked me to recite my full name and birthdate before sharing information about polyps. Dum-di-dum-dum. Hallie ordered me to disrobe and put on the ap

I didn't get the week I felt I was promised this past week. I was prepared to get the cast taken off my foot. Didn't happen! Imagine my thoughts when the doctor said, "We can take the cast off, BUT, you might benefit by keeping it another week." I don't think the doctor even cared that I haven't been able to drive myself, and worse than that, I had to let Elaine drive every time I left the house. I would never accuse Elaine of being a bad driver, I don't think she has ever

The new year is off to a pretty good start. My doctor tells me I get my cast-off next Friday. I am looking forward to that day. For those of you thar are wondering, this cast (on my right foot) has sent me into depression. I didn't have a cast when I was a child. It wasn't that I didn't want one I just didn't need one. I waited until my senior years before I got my first cast. My senior cast is no way l like the casts my friends got in their childhoods. No one can sign