I'm originally from Puerto Rico. I was born in Santurce and raised in Rio Piedras. Have lived in Florida since 1999.
I have a doctorate degree in Medicine; completed in 1976. My Internal Medicine specialty was completed in 1979. Worked for Puerto Rico's health system until 1985.
At this time, I'm happily retired after working for the federal government for almost 28yrs.
I want to offer any knowledge that I have to anyone "out there" who is interested. My views are liberal in almost every sense. My knowledge is "eclectic" - a bit of everything. Music and reading are my passion. Blogging has also become a very interesting endeavor. Metaphysical topics attract me. I'm interested in news reporting human issues like injustice, discrimination and abuse - the "wrongly" affected.
My intention is to bring this knowledge to an understandable level and to help anyone in need. I'm open to questions and will answer them to the best of my ability.
Currently working on an enterprise whose main mission will be to bring peoples of all walks of life together. To be one .... since we ALL are ONE!!
The future looks bright and promising!!!
This says it all!! … “I’m happy. I’m lucky. I’m grateful. I have much to live for. And I intend to keep on living it,” she told Gayle King in an interview for “CBS This Morning” conducted at her California ranch in 2019. “‘Why me’ has never been a part of it.”
Yesterday the world received the sad news that singer Olivia Newton-John had died at age 73. A cause of death was not given, but Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer that surfaced for a third time in 2017. Her Grease costar and hit duet partner John Travolta was quick to weigh in with a tribute on social media …
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”
While I liked much of her music, I didn’t know a whole lot about her, so I went in search of this evening.
From Songfacts, I learned …
Olivia Newton-John was born in 1948 in Cambridge, England, but emigrated with her family to…
Olivia Newton-John was one of the biggest musical Artists of the early 80’s, with hits like “Let’s Get Physical” – and of course “Hopelessly Devoted To You” from the smash hit film “Grease”…but “Xanadu” was a film that included this song, written by Jeff Lynne of ELO…
The three red stripes represent the blood from the brave warriors. The two white stripes represent the victory and peace that they would have after gaining independence.
The white star represented the island of Puerto Rico. The blue represents the sky and blue coastal waters.
Dare we hope? But this is indeed HUUGE … “This is big news and it’s unprecedented for a president’s home to be raided by the FBI. But everything about Trump’s presidency (sic) has been unprecedented. The crimes of this president (sic) are unprecedented.”
The FBI has raided Mar-a-Lago. We learned this from Trump himself who made a very whiny post about it on his joke of a social media platform, Truth Social. He’s partly upset the FBI didn’t give him, a guy with a habit of flushing evidence, advance notice of their raid.
This is big news and it’s unprecedented for a president’s home to be raided by the FBI. But everything about Donald Trump’s presidency (sic) has been unprecedented. The crimes of this president (sic) are unprecedented.
Mar-a-Lago is a golf club and a resort. It’s also Donald Trump’s legal residence. He’s not a resident of New York City anymore. He lives in Palm Beach, Florida. But, he doesn’t spend a lot of time in Florida during the summer because it’s hot. Nobody wants to see a hot and sweaty Trump. It’s icky. He was actually at Trump Tower in the city…
“Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time,” her husband, John Easterling, wrote in a statement on the singer’s verified Instagram account.
“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer.” … 💞
WOW!! … “It was high summer and there were hundreds of butterflies in there.” … and more!! Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir (Penguin Publishing, July 12, 2022).
It was high summer and there were hundreds of butterflies in there. I had stood and watched them gather, like living jewels, around a table of fruits, amazed at the way the tiny croziers of their tongues would uncurl and drink from the nectar of the oranges. The air was thick with them, spiraling as though played by little flurries of wind. If I held out an arm, eventually one would land on it and petal me into stillness. I loved to see how they mimicked the forms of the world on their wings – an ocellus, or the pattern of snake-print, all their gorgeous subterfuge. I had always wanted to be decorated like that, to hold out an arm and to have all the beauty of the world land on it, and make me beautiful, too.
Hold my phone and please make sure not to delete anything so that it’s lost forever…and never retrievable…wink wink. Nudge nudge.
Music note: I listened to a bunch of Tom Petty while drawing this last Friday.
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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire:There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first…
I originally planned to include this cartoon in my Jolly Monday post, but changed my mind for two reasons: a) it is of a socio-political nature and I try very hard to keep Jolly Monday upbeat and G-rated, and b) I didn’t want it to be just one of 20 other cartoons, but wanted people to take a closer look, to ponder it for a bit. The ‘toon needs no explanation or commentary from me, so I shall give none.
THIS!! … “Indiana is the first state to create new limits on abortions after the Supreme Court overruled its predecessors and declared it’s not a constitutional right. This vote was just three days after voters in Kansas rejected a measure to strip abortion from the state constitution, and after a ten-year-old fled Ohio, where nearly all abortions are banned, to abort her rapist’s fetus in Indiana.”
Indiana lawmakers made sure not to do one thing last Friday when they banned most abortions in their yee-haw state. They made sure not to let their citizens vote on it. It’s a lesson they learned from Kansas.
Indiana is the first state to create new limits on abortions after the Supreme Court overruled its predecessors and declared it’s not a constitutional right. This vote was just three days after voters in Kansas rejected a measure to strip abortion from the state constitution, and after a ten-year-old fled Ohio, where nearly all abortions are banned, to abort her rapist’s fetus in Indiana.
Republicans nationwide were eager to ban abortion after the SCOTUS ruling but Kansas has slowed their roll. State Republicans in Florida, West Virginia, South Carolina, Nebraska, and Iowa were talking a lot of shit until the conservative voters in Kansas spoke out. The question every conservative needs to…
It Is What It Is 