Memorial Day

Today, Memorial Day 2012, at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, the leadership of our country lead us in finally, officially, saying 'welcome home' to the veterans who served in that long 'conflict', later offically deemed a 'war'. There were shades of grey initially with US "involvement", going back into the 1950s, but in January of 1962, US pilots started transporting the south Vietnamese troops, a major turning point which provides the 'starting point'.  read more »

In having a relaxing Memorial Day weekend, in what had to be the most perfect weather ever here with bluebird skies yesterday and today, I was watering the garden thinking about how the idea of community gardens had been resonating for me this year.   read more »

As everyone is aware hopefully, this Memorial Day in the Gulf Coast of the US is quite unlike any of the past, with a massive oil spill affecting that area immeasureably.  I've been thinking about how to explain that something like this happened and wondered when I saw the house today of a most amazing woman who passed away last summer AFTER the very untimely and unexpected death of my teammate who had been one of the most amazing professional collaborations of my time seeing patients in home health in years past.   read more »

I happened to have Dr Oz on today and thought this was something worth bringing up before the Memorial Day weekend here in the US.  He had lots of good information about drowning prevention and that is obviously an important topic -- don't forget your lifejackets and think about safey this weekend and every day.  I encourage people to take CPR and First Aid courses AND do the simplest of things; always put on your seat belt.  Our local area has a campaign now because last year everyone who died in car crashes did NOT have seat belts on.  So that tells you how import  read more »