Thank You for Being a Friend, Part 1: The Hospital

Thank you for being a friend

Traveled down the road and back again

Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant

--Andrew Gold, "Thank You for Being a Friend" 

Well, I can certainly say the past few months have brought with them their share of challenges - but also much joy.  I meant to write this sooner while events were fresher in my mind....but given that I was recovering from surgery and still shrugging off the haze of anesthesia and pain medication, I can't really say they were all that fresh anyway!

I wanted to share this with you, though, because what I went through around the time of my surgery really drove home for me how blessed we are to have such amazing friends in our lives.  People who, when it comes down to it, are more like family than friends.

The Discussion Continues: Support for Maggie

Yesterday we discussed Paul Kramer's forthcoming children's book, Maggie Goes on a Diet.  I wrote a scathing review in which I explained why I abhor everything about this concept for a book geared to children in a society where everyone focuses too much on the wrong things as it is.

Though I haven't read the book itself, I read a number of articles about it before writing my last post.  It proved a bit difficult to find one that supported this book, but after much searching, I managed to do just that.

Where, you ask?  Why, in one frankly unsurprising place:  the Fox News website.