Both my mother and aunt expressed their concerns whether it perhaps was too soon after the death of their sister-in-law. For myself, I responded that he was married for 64 years and obviously missed the female companionship, and that he's also in his late eighties, and exactly how long an interval would they consider to be proper for him to wait before beginning to date again.

After all, life is meant to be lived, regardless of one's age -- and I can't help but believe that somewhere up there in the cosmos, my late aunt is smiling at me in full agreement. I've no doubt that she would've wanted my uncle to be happy.

There apparently isn't much that can slow down Edythe Kirchmaier. The 105-year-old California resident made headlines on Monday when she passed her driving test - continuing 86 years without a blemish on her driving record and maintaining her status as the state's oldest living driver.

Did I mention she holds another title:

Facebook has declared her its most senior user

lol

Personally, I happen to believe that there's absolutely nothing wrong with someone's personal admission that he or she doesn't care personally for either guns or hunting. Not everyone likes to go fishing or surfing, either. But such expressions of personal sentiment should not therefore be construed to necessarily imply that this person also doesn't care for those people who do like those activities.

Shingles is a painful localized skin rash often with blisters that is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), the same virus that causes chickenpox. Anyone who has had chickenpox can develop shingles because VZV remains in the nerve cells of the body after the chickenpox infection clears and VZV can reappear years later causing shingles. Shingles most commonly occurs in people 50 years old or older, people who have medical conditions that keep the immune system from working properly, or people who receive immunosuppressive drugs.

Shingles vaccine is recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to reduce the risk of shingles and its associated pain in people 60 years old or older.

If ya need heat, maybe something in the abandoned subway tunnels near a steam pipe.

We can't have a functioning society/economy with brown and white people belonging to the same classes.  We need second class citizens to blame for all our problems, or so it seems.

I lived outside of Houston for almost a year in the mid-90's and while I didn't enjoy myself during that time, I think it had more to do with my job, rather than the city.

While I didn't agree with most of the politics of Texas, (I lived all over the state over 6 years), I found the people generall to be extremely nice and friendly.

Houston has a vibrant museum and theater district.

From a business perspective, it's a great place to go, it's why I choose it out of college.  No job, didn't know a soul, but drove a Uhaul with a girlie and found a temp job two days later.  The city is mostly gas and oil, with tons of energy companies.  Which allowed us to ride out the recession fairly easy, we never felt the pain of the rest of the Nation and that too me is comforting.  The cost of living is cheap, but the cost is the commute if you live in the burbs.

What I really like is that gas and oil brings in people from all over the world.  You will have to look hard to find someone who is actually from Houston, they just don't seem to exist.  Some Texans, but a lot of yankee's and Europeans.  The people are probably the biggest asset.  

Believe it or not we have a ton of parks and so long as you don't live in the burbs, those are used parks and really a treasure for the city.  Surprisingly, there are lot of trees as well, beyond the dead middle of summer it's a pretty green city.  The police even keep there horses at one of the parks, Memorial which is 1500 acres and in the middle of the city.  I think the time I have ever seen a cop on a horse was for the Super Bowl.  I think that is what surprised me the most about Houston, how much green space there is.

It's a liberal city, we have a openly gay female mayor.  There is no zoning, which I think adds to the mingling of all classes.  The wealthy live within blocks of Section 8 housing.  It's very odd with no zoning, what was a house yesterday might be a beauty salon tomorrow.  But it add character.

The bad, while not actually in Houston, the refinery wasteland is vast and who knows what they piping into he air.  Traffic is a nightmare for the burbs.  I actually go against traffic and it's smooth, but the days when I get caught up in it are days I want to stick a fork in my head.  We have a 22 or 25 lane freeway, I-10, that somehow still gets backed up at rush hour.

While HPD has a good reputation, Harris County does not.  While it never actually involves me, they are know for their brutal treatment of people and occasional scandal.

The heat for me is worth it when you consider today it nearly 80's, the big cold front is moving in and suppose to take us down 10 degrees tomorrow. The only time the heat has really bothered me was the year before last when we had the big doubt and I went up to Wisconsin.  When I got back it seemed unbearable.  But then again I get to work late and my black truck sits in the sun all day long.  the humidity on the coast if always there.  Plus I grew up in northern Wisconsin and seem to have developed a allergic like reaction to the cold.  Even when it's 40 here, those 5 days, I hate it.

I don't know anyone that lives here that doesn't like it except for the a couple of country folks at work that commute like an hour and half from their horse ranches.  Who, I believe, would find any city not to their liking.

The biggest thing I hate living here is getting boxed into all other Texans, especially here at TL.  I am a Texan, which apparently means I am someone really stupid for living here or that I am somehow responsible for the rest of the state and the religious faction.  But being from Georgia, that's probably something you can relate to.

It's a little frightening leaving the city and experiencing the rest of the state.  Coming from Wisconsin, I never saw true blue poverty or racism, and both frighten the hell out of me.  But Austin is 3 hours, San Antonio is 4, New Orleans is 5, and Mexico is 6.  We used to go to Mexico one a month, it was so much fun, now it's not really an option, sucks.

If you are from Atlanta, although we have public transportation, no one uses it.  It's a city that loves their trucks and cars.  I used to use public transportation occasionally in Wisconsin, but here it's just not an option.

And I almost forgot, the food.  Man it is hard not to eat out all the time.  I love Tex Mex and Mexican and I think there is one of those types of restaurants on every block. I also love me some Vietnamese sandwiches, but I suspect that is something all cities have.