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I recommend reading REGENESIS: FEEDING THE WORLD WITHOUT DEVOURING THE PLANET by George Monbiot.

There are senior facilities for gays.

Dont forget - if there are no younger friends or family members, there are professional fiduciaries who can handle everything.

My husband and a couple of his friends are upset by the fact they they are invisible to younger men. A long time ago, I faced the fact that it is a stage of life that everyone has to negotiate, so it doesn't bother me a bit.

It isn't that he can't fit in, it's that he's stuck in a care facility. My mother-in-law lived in one of those "very nice" facilities. It looked like a luxury hotel, the food was terrific and they all hated it - they all just wanted to go home. When my father's health failed, we started looking for a home for him. We even had him try a one-week stay in a Prebyterian home - a "very nice" facility. He said none of the residents ever left their rooms or socialized with each other needless to say, he hated it.

Many years ago, in law school, I took an elective in healthcare law. One of the factoids I gleaned from that course was that our preference for the institutional model of senior care doesn't make any sense because home care costs far less and most seniors prefer to age in place. When my husband's mother needed care, they literally had to sell the family farm to pay for it. Two years of care in a high-end facility cost about $100k. I have known two guys who owned nursing home companies and they both were VERY well off - not just comfortable but wealthy. Just recently, I read that home care costs about half of what intitutional care costs. I have a friend who is 92 and he has someone who manages his financial affairs for him who he pays $50.00/hr and he has two part-time care givers and a cleaning lady. I keep a close eye on everything because I'm his attorney-in-fact and his trustee/executor.

It just isn't a problem for me, in fact I have the opposite problem - keeping weight on. My coach is fond of saying that I have the metabolism of a12-year-old. I've been on a strict regimen for my autoimmune problem, and my man tolde me I had to ease up on it because I had gotten too thin.

My husband and I talk about it with each other, but we haven't talked with any friends or family members about it. My family is utterly useless. My husband's sibs are our age or older. We had named my sister as our attorney in fact, our trustee and our executor, but I just don't think she will be reliable, so I'm having our plan amended. My investment adviser is really solid and I want to bring it up with him, but havent yet. Living with an autoimmune problem for the last 18 months has convinced me that I won't live forever, so we definitely nned to take more positive steps than we have.

Sounds tasty - loads of sodium, though.

His profile says his fees start at $180. That would be fine for me because I always hire for therapeutic. Knowing others' experiences, I would enjoy his massage, but I wouldn't even want a handjob.

I think I am most grateful for the people who have showed up in my life at crucial times and pointed the way. Because of them I have gone places I never would have imagined.

I've been on a special diet that doesn't include eggs - so I hadn't noticed the egg shortage.

Last year at the Thanksgiving table, I said I was grateful for good-looking men. Nobody said anything for a couple seconds and then they all started laughing. This year, I'm a year older and even more grateful for good-looking men.

He's been deeply involved with Exodus International and he's a big proponent of conversion therapy. His wife is a psychotherapist who does Christian psychotherapy and equates man-on-man sex with bestiality. As soon as the public eye fell on her because of her husband's rise, she took down her website. It isn't known for sure that he's an ex-gay, but quite a few people associated with Exodus International have later come out as gay. It is common for someone as energetically homophobic as he is to turn out to be a closeted gay. So, I'm not being sarcastic - someone who hates gays as passionately as he does may very well be gay himself.

If you're an ex-gay like Speaker Mike Johnson, you might find a need for it.

The new Speaker of the House uses the Covenant software - his accountability partner is his son. Interesting, but not surprising, that he should need it, apparent ex-gay that he is.

To me, it's not really bread. In addition to yeast or sourdough starter, you have to add lots of eggs and fiber supplements like guar gum and lecithin to make up for the lack of gluten - even after all of that, it doesn't rise very well and it's kind of soft and squishy.

I guess, if you go by the cars, I live in a middle-class neighborhood, about an equal mix of ordinary cars and upscale ones - Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, etc. Just recently, I have been seeing a Ferrari parked right in front of my house. The guy who seems to own it is a tall, slender, nice-looking Asian guy with a shaved head. We've exchanged greetings a couple times and he seems nice. I'm very curious about him.

Wow - say the quiet part out loud.

At the time, none of that occured to me. I thought "why would he choose this author for me - he didn't do it for anyone else," but that was as far as I got. Many years later, it just hit me out of the blue that that's what may have been going on. He was an interesting character - kind of edgy in an environment where nobody else was edgy. He liked to say provocative things. I don't remember what work we were discussing, but it involved a wedding. And he was curious what we thought of the wedding. He said,"some people think that weddings are actually fertility rites." Everyone blushed and didn't say anything.

I tend to sleep on the left side of the bed. It doesn't mean anything - just habit.

Exactly!!

I have noticed that you can be disappointed when you hire for sensual or erotic, I always hire for therapeutic, which often morphs into sensual or erotic. If it doesn't it's OK because therapeutic is what I hired for, after all.

Inhaled meds for respiratory problems are god-awful expensive. For years, I got spiriva offshore because the copay was something ridiculous like $350.00. Just recently it has come way down - i got a refill just recently and it was only $70 for 90 days' worth.