text: ami's place blog: April 2009
  QotD: Swine Flu Pandemic
  Are you worried about a swine flu pandemic?Absolutely, I have a compromised immune system due to 30 years of hep "C". Even though I have been viral free for over ten years my immune system was overtaxed for 30 years. My husband works for a company that was purchased by a French company and is sending a great deal of the work to Mexico. One of the workers who takes regular trips to Mexico works in a cubicle close to the one my husband works in. I worry that none of our public and private health facilities are capable of handling a pandemic. Just another reason to have a National Health Care system.
  The other day, Jon bought me a hat for spring. It was at a little locally owned store that we often haunt on the weekends. The store is called Common Folk and it is filled with antiques and new stuff that looks antique. I love the small French milled soaps, as I don't need to apply lotion after using them. Anyway the hat is as Jon says,"just you". It is very much me. After several days of wearing it I sent this picture to my mother in Florida who had just sent us a picture of herself in a hat she wore to her Garden Club.
  New hat to mom
  Sponsored by Nature Made. I open my home to fellow Buddhists who need a quiet place in which to chant. I also open my home studio to other artists who may not have the room in which to create. Each and everyday we recycle as much as possible and eat a vegetarian diet of organic and locally grown foods. We watch Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now and try our best to be good citizens and active members of our community. My life has been spent as an activist and I find no need to slow down with age. I am proud of being a
  Hey-young-woman
  baby-boomer.
  QotD: Named after one of the 50 states
  If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?Washington State. I have lived here most of my life and any time I leave and attempt to stay elsewhere, the Pacific Northwest calls to me. I am by every standard a Washingtonian.