Tonight I care for a teenager with a sign above her bed that reads "Hope".Her parents visit and plead for 1 and 1/2 hrs. for her to wake up.She does not.She is tired, they say. She is trying, they can tell, when her eyes flicker.God will heal her and she will wake up, they tell me.They believe, they hope.Her beautiful graduation pictures are...

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Taylor is taking PanAfrican Studies this semester. I benefit!Not only do I get to go to the theatre with him, he has another assignment to see "Precious", the new movie I heard is really great.So, last night we went downtown to the new LA Theatre to see "The River Niger". The theatre is really a complex of several small theatres, so there were...

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Sometimes it is the little things that make us feel great. For me, it is this tiny little closet in the hallway that makes myself feel terrific.It is our broom closet. Just a broom closet. . . but everytime I needed the broom, the mop, the dustpan, a screwdriver out of the tool box we keep in here, it would be a major...

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It all started with an inspection of the work being done on the property in LA that mom and Aunt Dorothy are supervising. We met Andrew, their property manager and he showed us all the progress on the house being renovated.The foundation was terribly uneven, so his contractor jacked up the house and placed new posts and beams under the foundation to fix...

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Welcome to Bonnie and Clyde's home for the Annual Halloween Haunt! This years theme "No one but the dead enter and are reborn in this house for tonight!"All party goers came as the former living and spirited the night with revelry!Madame Currie literally set the place "aglow" with her personality and Jesse shone as the Vampire with flair!Janis Joplin and Ana Nicole were...

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