This is an autobiography, people, and it ain't all pretty. But it is my life, and so be it. I'm still alive and enjoy Life. Thank God, my health is good, but I tend it very well., as you should yours. We have much marvelous things available to us, why not be a true human and embrace them? I will have lived here 10 years as of Nov. 1, 2007. I moved in with a bed ans TV - both donated to me by my brother ans his wife, Doris. The day I moved in, a little girl, named Mattie Koch, met me at the door and said, "My neighbor down the happ is going to a nursing home and has to sell everything." I ent with her to the 13th floor and bought it all for $245.00. Had sold my own things in California when Oscar dies and had realized enough to buy the plane ticket. Life gets pretty strange sometimes, right? Oh well, it all worked out. Things have a way of doing "just that." Right? My family all lived near Rockford as well as my daughter and grand-daughter, so I decided to return after 14 years in Orange County, California. An immense change, especially climate wise, but U wanted "family" now. And they were there! Bless them all. There's nothing like "loving" arms when you need them. And, Fella, I know about "love" !! Enjoy, Midge