back to the old neighborhood

By spring of 1970, the once hearty evergreen garden in front of 1456 Townsend Avenue had become spiny with glistening pieces of shattered broken bottles  and candy wrappers. Glancing down at the sidewalks as I rushed to the safety of my apartment lay half smoked cigarettes, still burning, used prophylactics and dog poop. The neighborhood was dirty and unsafe. I walked down my old street Saturday. It's a pretty block now, with a trash can holding the litter that used to stick to the pavement, just as i remember it when i was a little kid!

(I found this while reading my blog. It was written in 2010.

what is a religious person?

is a religious person one who scams friends for his own financial gain?
is a religious person one who makes promises and forgets, not thinking that others bank on his words?
is a religious person one who maltreats co-workers and will backstab them just to get ahead?
is a religious person an insecure administrator, who hinders the most able person in the organization from getting a promotion and who could well serve troubled adolescents who depend upon its services . Is that same religious person keeping an intelligent, humble man who could easily put back together a crumbling facility, just so she won't look incompetent?
is a religious person one who judges a person's worth based on his title, fame or financial worth?
I think not.

I get verbally assaulted everyday so...

...it's no wonder why I question my worth.

they sit in their cushy offices...

...and continue to enact changes that make stff more and more uncomfortable and unhappy at work and we can't publisize the incompetence and coldness for fear of retributions.

Sitting on the sofa with my feet resting on the coffee table..

..watching my little (almost 28 yr. old daughter) sleeping with bichon katana on ber chest. What a lucky mommy am I. It's Passover- Had a semi- Seder with Michael and jason and Dara- They were silly- I wish I had been too...can't go back even a coup;e of hours. jason almost slept over- then at 10:00 decided he wanted to sleep in his own bed- so he left with promiss of coming back around noon tomorrow- He looks like a man- and suddenly got stocky- I hope he loses the weight. They are my babies. i love tem.
How lucky I was to have had parents who loved me- Michael's mother is spending Passover with his ex and michael's kids in Florida- what a traitor she is- no love for her son. she gives him no emotional support and she has lots of money and woldn't give him a dime. I was so lucky to have been loved. A Jewish mother not doting over her son??? Could that be? I guess so.
bertha is 88 and a half- hard of hearing- can't walk without a walker- It's better she's so far away. i cry when i talk to her over the phone- can't fathom the pool of tears there would be if I saw her like that.

warning::

being too insightful may be hazardous to emotional health.
I see the phoniness of others throughout the day thinking that flattering the incompetent will reward them/

"sweetie pie, darling, honey, love and bullshit"

how appropriate could it be to acknowledge other employess by calling them all of the above and more, my pet????
I could just throw up!!

of course they can laugh

they are in no danger of being assaulted. they have their own secretaries, they don;t work with children- they just make crappy policies about what they know not- I bet they get the frnt pparking spaces in front of the New building

my friend might be very ill

I wish prayer could heal whatever is unhealthy in her body.

such insensitivity

those sitting in closed offices, except to attend coffee laugh and chat cloches, are not insensed as they learn of patient asaults on staff . Why aren't they working in Macys/

ok- so you hate your job, but don't take it out on me

He's so angry that he's treated without respect by the incompetent administrators at work that he mistreats me, not realizing it. He's exhausted from the untamed kids with whom he works and from the lack of support he gets, but one would think that he would be kinder to me...

what does it take...

...to establish oneself in the world of bloggers.com- to be followed- for someone to be interested in my random thoughts.. what does it take?

My husband is annoying me

He talks to his daughter as though she is his friend-

ashamed of myself

jason, who will be turning 30 a few days from now, came for dinner on his way to Albany, and kept referring to the dogs making silly comments. i became impatient with him and let him know it. I act silly too. i should have been happy just because he was here and appreciated that.

"Mommy, she took my blackberry!"...

laughed my almost 30 yr. old son as our bichon katana darted out of the family room, his blackberry in her mouth!!!!
jason retrieved it and now he's 'feeding' it to her!!!" How silly!
That's the way life should be- filled with fun and laughter!

Dilemma!

Hey, I spelled it right!!
Saw this right on target opinion article about what makes a bad boss, and I am glad to admit that every big boss at RCPC qualifies for being just that:A BAD BOSS!!!
Shall I anonymously mail it to a couple of them?? I might!
Stay tuned!

1984

26 years later... Though Michael and I know the concerns we have about the admin's lack of concern about the children, we cannot make them public because of fear of ramifications from the powers that be. I was raised and in turn i raised my chldren to believe that one is admired for having the courage to air moral convictions. Not so, I have learned.