go learn something

Barb, one of my patients, gathered me up today and very somberly said:

"Now Stephanie, I didn't have a daughter that I could pass this along to, so I feel I should pass it along to you. I have some very important advice that my mother told me when I was a little younger than you:

"go learn something."

you won't be pretty forever. And believe me when you start to look like I do, you're going to want to have something intellegent to say. So, sweetie, go learn something. everyday."

"yes ma'am."

never

never stand behind a sneezing cow.

its all a matter of physics: pressure, ballistics, path of least resistance....
...a real jaw-dropping experience, although not really recommended.

or so they say.

dying is not for wimps

"this whole dying thing is certainly not for wimps."
-hospice patient.

windows.mirrors.

some insist to look only out windows and refuse to face the mirror.
-Ricky Caldwell