Dental Issues

I have been told many times over the years that I have a nice smile but now as I approach the beginning of another decade of my life I can see how time has taken it's toll...this morning I have a dental appointment...for an extraction! I'm not happy.. for some reason the bone surrounding the root of one of my molars ( thank gad it's only one)got reabsorbed and now the poor tooth is hanging by a thread..another space...anybody know a good cosmetic dentist?

Throw'd TV Presents: Facebook Breakup

These guys are hilarious!

Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals

Skateboarding Dog

James Brown Dies (Tribute w/ Michael Jackson)

American Brewery redevelopment

American Brewery redevelopment

Fall

Nothing compares to the fall season on the east coast...I must admit I enjoyed the average 324 days of sunshine a year while living in Southern Nevada but I also missed the changing of the seasons..especially summer into fall. While in med school I had the good fortune to date a nice brother from Connecticut who had his pilot's license....in fact he got his license to fly before his driver's license...a very nice, sensible and ambition young man..well, anyway he took me flying several times during the fall of year...over the Shenandoah Valley..it was majestic..absolutely beautiful....and now more than 30 years later when I woke this cool overcast fall morning I had this mental vision of it and could only smile...the vision has forever been captured by the shutters of my eyes....today I'm debating...should I stay home and just chill or go to the annual book fair in Mount Vernon..I still have a few hours to decide...might be able to do a little bit of both.
This past week marked either the end of the year for most local non profits or the beginning of fall/winter season and trust me I had a blast! Creative Alliance has a very cleaver and now popular way to raise money during the fall...Art to Dine For...starts shortly after Labor Day and goes on every weekend and sometimes evenings until the week before Thanksgiving. I went to two Eat2Dine for Events this week...the 1st was Tuesday night at the newly renovated American Brewery in the 1700 blk of Gay Street....as a kid I walked past that place frequently ..almost daily...to get to school...my grandmother's house and church. Every year at X-mas they would put up (using cranes!) what I thought I was the biggest X-mas tree in the world! My mother probably dreaded this because it meant my brother and I would begin to bug her about when were we going to put up our tree....they had drinks...wine and of course beer...light fare to eat and a wonderful slide presentation about the 25 million dollar renovation...I included a link on my blog for those of you interested in learning more about the brewery...oh yes..I almost forgot...the brewery was fully operational during my childhood.
On Wednesday night Chilean artist Soledad Salame opened her Reservoir hill home to share her art, good food and fabulous company....check out her work www.soledadsalame.com
Thursday night Maryland Life Magazine had their annual Marylander of Distinction 2009 dinner ...honoree J. W. Marriott Jr...at the Marriott in Rockville...My good friend Jannette...( my personal social director..ain't I lucky!)is on Maryland Lif's Board ..invited me for the 3rd year..and I always enjoy myself...Thank you Jannette!..I thought The Annual Baltimore Clayworks gala would be my last event for the week on Friday night but I am really glad I decided to accept the invite from Gloria Askins to attend the St. Francis Neighborhood Center's 1st Annual Fall Fiesta and Gala...so I ended my week dancing the Salsa!
Well the Ravens are ahead 13-0....so I should go and do the patriotic thing..watch the rest of the game! LOL!

Posting on this site

Okay....here's the drill....this website will allow posts from folks who are not registered....they want to keep down the spam..that's the reason for registering...now I've had more than a few emails from folks who tried to post but couldn't so I decided I would leave everything open to see what happens....so those of you who tried to post and couldn't you should be able to do so now...Good luck!

This Blogg!

This blogging business and I may get divorced very soon if I can't learn to navigate my way around this site!! I have lost at least 3 drafts that I thought I saved!

Love by Chance or Choice

I have wonderful friends....as we approach another decade in our lives they still ponder the questions of need versus want and now Love. The following quote I saw for the 1st time today...I later learned that it has been floating around the net for sometime... but for the life of me I could not find the origin or the author....I did manage to locate quite a few blog sites where people posted their truncated definitions and/or interpretations. When I see the word Chance I think of Las Vegas....having lived there for 10 years I was exposed to quite a few games of CHANCE ..if you won...everyone said you were lucky.....but I'm also a scientist so CHANCE in mathematics takes us to probability....to me...that would be something like "What's the Chance/probability of my getting pregnant if I repeatedly have sex without birth control".... I would say a very high probability based on fact....so here I have some degree of control to either prevent an event from happening or allowing it ( based on behavior) ....I say it is possible by CHOICE to bring one or more events together for a specified result and by doing so greatly increase the CHANCE of it happening. Share your thoughts.

NO ONE falls in love by choice, it is by CHANCE.
No one stays in love by chance, it is by WORK.
And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by CHOICE

Missed it

For those of you signing in to read my posts...too late I deleted them ..except the first one..the topic was started by a question I posed about need versus want...the post gave me an opportunity to work thru the question and come up with a conclusion that satisfied me...so to prevent further discussion I deleted them. In the future I'll try to pick topics that I really want to discuss with others. I'll probably stick to books I'm reading. :)