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I’m representing Yvonne Perry who wrote the book “Right to Recover” on her virtual tour. I’m searching for blog owners who would like to interview her about her book and stem cell research. I’ve heard great things about the book. It covers the background and fills in many of the gaps in the details that people need to know to make an informed decision about this medical option.

Do any of you have suggestions for blogs that I could contact? I appreciate any ideas or, if you have questions, feel free to contact me - nikki_leigh22939@yahoo.com.

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It was a scandal not so many years ago, Iran Contra and another Arms deal to balance the power, and now that we have sent in our troops are we fighting against our own weapons?

Why is it so hard to create peace in the Middle East?

Do bad deals make the peace makers jobs harder?

Similar to the bad deals our police make and our judiciary creates. Do we have a chance to stop the escalation of violence, when we fuel the violence?

We are fighting the terrorists in the world and Al Qaeda in America seems to be leading the march to global destruction.

Isn’t it time to reach out our arms and contain these prolific war mongers? This Cabal and their partisan thinking is the same cycle of events that have been going on for thousands of years, the very events that hurt our neighbors the events that hurt humanity in total.

Can anyone stop the madness?

What a wonderful south central Texas morning. It’s a bit warm, 77 degrees, but there were just a few clouds and a nearly full moon could be seen. What a wonderful sight. I love to see the moon as the clouds pass in front of it.

Monday was not that bad. I had a better time of it than I expected. I also got a lot done. So it was just not that bad.

I got a lot of writing done. I wrote a lunch and then again last night on my watch article for Amuze. There are some super expensive watches being manufactured. I found some very nice ones and wrote about them. Today I will have to start on a golf article. I will do fine with it also.

We had no rain yesterday and it was hot and humid. So I guess we dried out some. We are still very wet. I don’t think we have much in the way of rain forecast. We will see how the week goes.

I don’t know if Saint Dorothy and the bunch are going to be able to come this weekend. My Dad is down with his back. He has to go to the doctor today. We will see. The problem is my Dad is 76 and he thinks he’s 26. It’s time for him to slow down and rest more. He will never do that. But we can try to make him.

That’s it for this morning. I know these writings are not Earth shatterint, but they are a glimpse of Ol’ Rooster and what he does each day in capsule form. I will write more later.

I’ve had an account at HubPages.com for several month and have not done anything with it.

Today I logged in and realized that it is A LOT like Squidoo. The interface is a little easier to use, but they don’t have as many “modules” (Squidoo calls them modules, I forget what HubPages calls them).

Anyway, here is my new hub. I snagged the keywords “make money writing” for this one. I am curious if it will surpass my Squidoo lens in terms of google rank, or if Squidoo is a little better.

Here’s the hub:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_Money_Writing

I will be updating this hub often because I am assuming it will help it do better in the search engine ranks.

This is my first attempt to include an image here. If it works you will see a picture from the island of Dominica, in the village of Grand Bay. It is from the back porch of the home of a friend of mine. Not a bad back yard view, huh?

Friendship is more precious than rubies and diamonds, and probably as rare. True friendship displays trust in all circumstances, open communications in all instances, common interests and common goals. One can count on a friend to care, despite flaws and failures, because of their unspoken agreement of mutual concern.

Joys are shared, as are troubles and sorrows. A friend is one of life’s greatest blessings. And this blessing demands a constant vigilance to insure that no selfish motives are allowed to come between friends.

Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was in fifth place and racing with the lap leaders at NASCARs return to The Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway 400 Mile (160 laps) Race, when his engine blew with a puff of smoke indicating the end of his race on lap 136 after leading for 33 laps.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was cranking down the long Indy frontstretch when his engine came apart, better there than in the apex of one of the turns where he would been harder to avoid by the other drivers as the running of this race created a lot of crumpled fenders.
Jimmie Johnson had a second blown tire in two races and was scored in the 39th position behind Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 34th place finish.
Martin Truex Jr., Dale Earnhardt’s Jr.’s DEI teammate finished in the 12th position, after losing his Chevy’s engine at the last NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland.
Tony Stewart won this 400-miler, his second race victory in a row after a long win-less first half of the season; as the midsummer weather heated-up his Heartland homecoming Tony Stewart found the the right line in the corners.
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My sister and I have always had a hot and cold relationship. We get along for a few years and then have a falling out and then not speak for a while.

The problem we come up against is always a varient of the same issue. She makes promises she does not keep and I feel slighted and get angry and she doesn’t want to deal with my anger so she withdraws. She never says she’s sorry. She just gets defensive and stops talking to me.

I have been dealing with this for 49 years. When I was single, her behavior often made me feel valueless. When I married, and I married late (37), my husband saw her behavior as distructive for me and told me not to interact with her. And in fact I stopped calling and emailing and participating in her life, though I still sent presents and cards to her kids on their birthdays and holidays.

We didn’t speak for several years until I had my son, at 40. She called me and wanted to see my child and we started talking again. It was tenuous, our dialog always frought with agitation, but we kept in contact through the birth of my second child and for years after, up until about 4 weeks ago.

My sister has been a marginal part of my childrens life since their birth. It’s hard to get her attention most of the time. Though she remembers my kids birthdays (sometimes after the fact), she generally sends cards and gifts. She rarely calls. Unless I do the drive to her house five hours away, she rarely comes to see us.

Recently she moved to Washington State and now that drive is no longer possible. She had invited my family (my kids now 5 and up to her new home for our end of summer vacation. Four weeks ago she withdrew the offer as others she’d invited slated themselves for the same time period as our family and she was concerned it would be too hecktic.

Replanning a summer vacation at the beginning of summer is somewhat problematic for us. It’s expensive and most things are booked by end of spring. My kids were very disappointed that we weren’t going up to visit her. The times we’ve spent together she’s been kind to my children and they like her very much.

When she recinded her offer I sent her an email saying how disappointed I was and the kids would be. She called me and yelled at me for not understanding her position and hung up and I haven’t spoken to her since. My birthday was this last Sat. and she did not call, or send a card or acknowledge me in any way.

Once again my heart is broken by her and once again I am sitting in the position of debating how to handle this situation. If it were me alone I would tell her to f*** off and not speak with her again. But she is the aunt to my kids, who like her, even love her, a lot. So what do I do with that?

How do I let go of my relationship with my sister and have her still acknowledge my children? I don’t want to be involved in her life. I don’t want to have virtually anything to do with her. I am sick of being let down by her and then being yelled at when I express my disappointment. She hurts me, hurts my kids and I’m just supposed to take it for the few times a year she acknowledges us?

What do I do? How do I keep her in the loop of being an aunt to my children and keep distance from her? I fear that she’s just selfish enough to ignore my children if I don’t want to talk to her. I don’t want to hurt my kids, but I don’t want to be hurt by her either. What should I do?

J. Cafesin
www.jcafesin.com

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