songbird's crazy world

 Lounging around

Four stories: 1. My grandmother was born in Poland in 1902.  She dropped out of school at 12 because she had to find work to support her family.   She came to America in the 1920’s and was a factory worker before her marriage.  She was left a widow with three children, the oldest only 11.  A single mother with no education, she struggled financially.  Yet every year before Passover, she’d go to the butcher, the grocer, the fishmonger, and ask for donations.  Not for herself, for “the poor people”. Feeding others was very important to her. 2.  One year during college I had a summer job at a cosmetics factory.  The company hired college kids to help put their fall and Christmas line together.  I spent my summer on an assembly line, labelling perfume bottles, dropping tins of eyeshadow into compacts, placing tubes of lipstick into boxes. 3.  Corporate America encourages its employees to contribute to charity.  Sometimes that means matc...

 Two of my favorite Star Trek  actors passed away last week.  Walter Koenig played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original series, and Sir Patrick Stewart was Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek:The Next Generation. Koenig also had a role in Babylon 5, and Stewart was Professor X in the X-Men series. In their honor, today I’ll be posting songs about space and space exploration. And of course And Sir Patrick gets the last word

 Yes, that was me on the dance floor last night, doing the Macarena…and  dancing to “Sweet Caroline” and “Dancing Queen” …  And let’s not forget this one It was a fun wedding,  very untraditional. Apparently I have reached the age where half of my contacts have the same first name: Doctor. I guess it’s better than the alternative. But apparently, the days where I can donate blood may be over. My doctor told me not to do that for the next six months; nothing is seriously wrong but my blood work was not what it should be. The things you do to stay healthy. And staying healthy has become very important to me. I feel better now at 66 than I did at 56. I want to keep feeling good I’m not switching gyms just yet. I want to make sure that the habit sticks before I invest more money. But I have been going twice a week so I think it is going to be part of who I am from now on. The gym  that I have in mind has yoga classes, which would be interesting. I wouldn’t have to s...

  HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

  I've Written a Letter to Daddy Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! Saturday 9: I've Written a Letter to Daddy (1962) Unfamiliar with this week's featured song? Hear it  here .   Happy Halloween.  We are headed to a Halloween wedding Saturday night.  Bride and groom have asked the guests to come in costume.  Should be fun! 1) This song is from  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane , which was released on Halloween Day, 1962. Do you like scary movies? Wow, I’d forgotten how scary Baby Jane was … yes, I like scary movies.   2) The "Baby Jane" ...