http://rosedeshaw.com Bits Of My Life Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the middle of my life, I found I was CELIAC, Thank heavens. What I’d been was sick which got worse and worse. I’d be bumbling along in my life and WHAMO! I’d get pains like lightning hit my stomach. Rolling around on the bathroom floor. They would last ... http://rosedeshaw.com/glad-to-be-gluten-gone/ If you are a lighthearted fiction author, especially Chick Lit or a lover of Jane Austen, please let me know about your work. I am also interested in ideas and history. Not keen on the Drats & the Boo Hoos. Taking the risk of living large, stepping out, encountering ... http://rosedeshaw.com/tell-me-about-your-book/ I’m growing sick of the vampire as reading material. Plus the werewolves, witches and other fantasy folk who think erotica is an important plot point. I’ll do my own fooling around, thank you, which means I don’t need anyone else’s vicarious experience, all of which is simply good fodder for ... http://rosedeshaw.com/buddy-can-you-spare-a-good-book/ I am looking forward to the future when all the facebook mysteries, the tales of misplaced correspondence, the Kicked-Off-Due-To-5 Thousand-Friends, all the separations due to someone’s worlds of communication being shattered into too many thousands of splintered ‘hellos,’ will someday be told. The old days of a small collective ... http://rosedeshaw.com/facebook-and-the-5-thousand-friends/ http://rosedeshaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cut-12.wmv http://rosedeshaw.com/greg-betts-video/   Note- This was about 2 years ago. I am presently bagless but still very much amused and laugh when I think of how it went: The funniest thing that ever happened to me, to date, turned out to be something no one wanted to talk about.  I had absolutely no idea ... http://rosedeshaw.com/other-funny-things-about-ostomies/ I couldn’t believe my luck when I woke up recently from emergency surgery for an intestinal obstruction. There, on my stomach, like a good conduct medal, was a discreet little sort of sandwich bag, which, for the foreseeable future, would be externally collecting my poop.             Oblong, rounded at the corners ... http://rosedeshaw.com/some-funny-things-about-an-ostomy/ My friend the poet Kemeny Babineau wrote this:    Fixing the Vote I'm fixing a hole where the votes get out And stop majority from forming So I prorogue  I’m filling the cracks from coast to coast That kept majority from forming So I prorogue And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right where I prorogue I'm right where ... http://rosedeshaw.com/fixing-the-vote-beatles-tune-im-fixing-a-hole/ Since Steve began He's had a goodby callin’ We can all see He's goin' WRONG Bad in the spring Soldiers were dyin’ Who’d have believed you’d Let him last so long? Sweet Michelle Jean We know that you could Shut down this fool We believed you always would But now we Look at this blight They call the Tories They fill us up With crap, they do And ... http://rosedeshaw.com/sweet-michelle-jean-tune-sweet-caroline/ “The problem is all inside the Hill,” she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically Michelle Jean can help in our struggle to be free There must be 50 ways to leave our HARPER! It’s true, it’s really not our habit to intrude Futhermore the message mustn’t be lost or ... http://rosedeshaw.com/50-ways-to-leave-our-harper/