On the Other Hand….(new title!)

You'd think with six girls I'd only blog about "Mommy" things. No....I do think about other things other than "Mommy/Housewife things." So, the other morning I was driving my two older girls to their co-op classes and I noticed I was driving alongside "Ultra Safe Motorcycle Guy." This guy was so amazing! I was so impressed! He had on his motorcycle safety suit, these cool looking "safety" boots and this MASSIVE helmet with wires running through the top of it to this backpack thing he had in front of him, a butt pad, a flashlight hooked up to the top of his helmet, and goggles under his already eye-shielded helmet. He had two metal cases on both sides of his motorcycle, for storage I assume. We were driving on New York Drive (one of my favorite streets to drive on both day and night. Great views from both sides of the street.) We kept stopping next to him at stoplights. My daughter and I were laughing because he was so decked out with safe...

Yesterday I was too tired to post news of Mike's passing. It had been an emotional day and I spent a good part of it with Tina, Christian, and Mike's family. I cried a lot, and will ocntinue to. I miss my friend Mike, but I'm crying just as much for Tina and Christian and their loss. She called me about 30 minutes after he passed away and I arrived about 20 minutes later. I was honored to be included in his goodbye. I met with the president of St. Francis High School, Father Tony. He was a lovely Brazilian man who came into the priesthood later in life after losing his wife to brain cancer, too. I met the hospice care nurse and the chaplain who came with her from Kaiser. Both were wonderful people. I spent some time with Barbara, Mike's older sister. I like Barbara a lot and was grieving for her loss, too. Mike was the 4th sibling who's died in her family of 9 brothers and sisters. It's a painful and awful story about their family and in honor of those who have ...