July 2009
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Song of the day: “Grounds For Divorce”...
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“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– Thomas Mann
Full Recovery for Girl with Two Hearts
In 1995, two-year-old Hannah Clark of Mountain Ash, Wales suffered from cardiomyopathy and received a donor heart, which was “piggybacked” onto her original heart and took over its function. For ten years, the donor heart beat in Hannah’s chest, but she was developing tumors and could not continue the immunosuppressive drugs transplant patients must take to counter organ rejection....
Overheard...
Friend #1: Hey, did you know Steve's cousin is a strategic navigator in the Navy?
Friend #2: Yeah?
Friend #1: So, he's really good at connect four!
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Kids Put Dad In Jail, 20 Yrs. Later Admit They...
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The two adult children of former Vancouver police Officer Clyde Ray Spencer, who spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of molesting them, testified in court Friday that the abuse never happened.
A 33-year-old son recalled how, at age 9, he was repeatedly questioned, alone, by now-retired Detective Sharon Krause, of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. He...
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“If you always go where you’ve always gone. If you always do what...”
– Unknown 