Freddie Hubbard 1938-2008 Famed jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles, was a talented musician and band leader.  His long time manager Dave Weiss has issued a statement indicating that Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Ange...

Hello bloggity readers on the world wide web. It would be redundant to say that I have been busy. But it is the Christmas season and I know that, just like me, you are all overwhelmed and crazy. But I have the seasonal cure. DRINK ADULT EGG NOG. Seriously, only once a year do you have such an excuse...

It was so nice to have a long weekend.  Normally, I don't have a break at all on the weekends.  Saturdays are for errands, and Sundays are still spent at my father's house going through my mom's things.  That project will take another one to two years.  I only wis...

Dear Retailers: If you think, for one New York minute, that I will ever get up at 3:00 in the morning for the privilege of giving you my money, think again.  Especially in this economic climate.  Hello!  I'm the customer.  I have what you want.  Now make it convenie...

Well, at the risk of making my entries all about me and my health, all the time, we still don't know where we are.  I am still on a pill month, still supposed to start Lupron on 11/10, and I am no closer to any answers than I was before. I mentioned that I went to the well-respected univer...

Internist #1:  I have no idea why you have very infrequent stomach pain.  Let's do an ultrasound.  (Ultrasound completed.)  Handwritten note, read by a clerk, instructing me to see a surgeon for gallstones.  The note is subsequently mailed.  No further discuss...

This is all just general whining . . . plus some miscellaneous.  DH says that I'm always pissed off about something.  Hmmm.  Maybe.  I think that it is a reflection of a passion for life.  But maybe I'm just bitchy.  No, I think it's passion. Today, it took me THREE HOU...