extended family

Who would ever think that a week in northwest Ohio would be better than a week at the beach?

There was a milestone in my family over the weekend. My aunt Ruby passed away Friday night at the age of eighty-two. 

I'm a bit of a creature of habit. Which is why I don't really treat this blog like a food diary; I'd be embarrassed for the world to know how often I eat the same thing over and over. But to anyone who's been reading a while, it's pretty clear that there are several places here in Nashville I love.

Bringing the new boyfriend home to meet parents and extended family tomorrow. Nervous. Hope he has fun. Gah. Hope the naked baby pics stay locked away.

Brentwood boy whose family moved here from Panama is cured of sickle cell anemia

Edna Chang-Vega and her husband left behind good jobs, a comfortable home and extended family in Panama in the hope of obtaining better treatment for Isaac, who suffered from debilitating sickle cell anemia.

Kay Brooks thinks a blogpost where Nate Rau exposes the intimate connections of the extended family that runs Metro Government needs to be the exception rather than the rule in Nashville media:

I addressed Gold Star Mothers and their families, along with many Blue Star families, at a luncheon honoring fallen U. S. Marines on Sept. 17, 2005. The luncheon was sponsored by Tennessee Marine Families, a chartered not-for-profit organization.

[Written in bits and pieces over the last week, which may explain any temporal juxtapositions that seem to lack harmonic continuum synchronization.]

Stainless steel. Cell phone batteries.  These require nickel.

I visited a community in the Dominican Republic today where nickel is mined by a U.S. corporation.  In this small community dozens of children have been born deaf mutes - some born without any ears at all and others born with additional birth defects like white hair or Down syndrome.