Sick, Sick, Sick

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan

ObamaCare: A violation of our individual rights, personal freedoms, and liberties as Americans.

It is another entitlement program added on to the growing and controlling federal government that can't afford it.

And most of this country is standing there with their hand out and open.

America, do you want to be Sweden?

I Individually Choose Healthy

"Cast all of your anxiety on him, because he cares for you." 2 Peter 5:7

"No, the blues are because you are getting fat or its been raining for too long. You're sad that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen. And you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling?"

"Quite often, some people call it angst."

"All right. Angst. But what do you do about it."

Truman Capote-Breakfast at Tiffany's

Within minutes, the Supreme Court will release it's decision on Obamacare which will have a powerful impact on our health care, the presidential race, and the breadth of government control.

I just got off the phone with my meager insurance company, which I recently qualified due to the health and heart wrenching hours spent on set.
Turns out they are only covering 20% of my recent visits.

I haven't been to the doctor in seven years. I had stored them up.

And in one visit, apparently because I mentioned the stress of living in this rather eventful city and working 70 hour weeks in a blood sucking competitive industry that rapes the souls of many to the doctor,she coded it as a psychological visit and diagnosed me with ANXIETY.

No shit bitch.

Now, my insurance won't pay because the routine physical turned into a fraudulent mental health visit.

****BREAKING NEWS***SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OBAMACARE AS CONSTITUTIONAL****BREAKING NEWS****

(More on that later...eek, gasp, scary)

I calmly call the doctor's office and let them know, not only did this sassy doctor, clad in a leopard dress not lay a hand on me or go over my blood work results; She divulged her painful divorce details, her weight loss resulting in a new husband, a fondness for tennis and affection for wine. Telling me all the while she was popping doses of LEXAPRO to get through it all.

As she handed me seven prescriptions which I told her I would NEVER take, she did her best imitation of Authur Fonzarelli with a thumbs up and mouthed "Try it, it's awesome."

And I can't casually mention my difficult job to my primary physician without incurring an added cost...

Are you fucking kidding me?

Mr. Misinterpretation

"When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue." Proverbs 28:2

Mmmm. There seems to be a little confusion.

Why is Obama exerting executive privilege to butt his way into a bitter, ongoing investigation [Fast and Furious] of lying Eric Holder and cronies if he had no knowledge or acquaintance of it?

Maybe he did.

And does he really believe the Latino/Hispanic population finds favor in his eleventh hour antics when he has done nothing with immigration reform up until now?

If so, he offends their intelligence.

Lastly, when he said “If I don’t have this [economic improvement] done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition." 

Was he lying?

Then what's with all the campaigning?

Just You And I

"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow." Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

It is important to me that I not busy myself with dim distractions and minor worries as to pull my focus from my current state and God-Willing future.

This includes but is not limited to brave victims who urged a Pennsylvania jury to find Jerry Sandusky guilty of heinous sexual abuse charges, Obama's vote share mildly declining as we the people walk a thin line in a tight race all the way until November, or the fowl guests invited to a Gay Pride Reception at the White House flipping the bird to a photograph of President Ronald Reagan while audibly saying F*Ck You.

But I digress.

The sun rises behind me and the Intracoastal's glass surface changes from an ice blue to amber,      Low-country's brilliant grass blows in the sea breeze, dancing to a familiar Southern song.  I've heard it before and swayed to the sound but can't remember if it resonated in my heart. I want it to.

Bronzed bodies roll by on rusty beach cruisers toting their heavy pride and joy. Their nine or ten year old arms loaded with waxed up surf boards and scuffed fins. 

Toe-heads. From their genes and determined days spent in salt drenched water.

 They're sweet and scary in the same breath.

Two years ago, I told a friend of mine that in twenty, I would be diligently pounding out another novel on my wraparound porch, dappled with shade by the grand live oaks. I'd look up to see my 18 year old daughter climbing the wide wooden front stairs barefoot, with a surf board under one arm and a smile spread across her tan face.

Is this trip the preconception of a vision in the making?

Maybe it's the scent of Oleander that's making me dizzy with thoughts of a simple life and beach cottage. They say its poison after all.

But so is the tireless rat race of the Empire City.

The driving force of hedonistic experience and fame seeking suffering is a lethal dose I continue to take. And to what end? 

I grabbed my husband's hand somewhere between dark and dawn and whispered, "Let's take another leap together."

He rolled over and stayed the course of sleep.

But I think he heard me. And I think he smiled in agreement.

Alice Cooper Was On To Something...

I love when NYU is out for the summer. The streets take on an authentic neighborhood feel. A bustling village one would want to be a part of.The Polish ladies bring out their aluminum chairs for a spell, Avenue D Project kids chase each other on skateboards with squirt guns, and long time tenants sit on their stoops for casual conversation instead of closing out the roar of the babes and their boys beneath our windows every night.

And the revelers sleep it off without foot traffic interruption.

(Dave on 7th)

This is the New York I like.

But is this three month stillness enough to sustain the school year?

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18

Thankful For My Citizenship

"I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, Ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on."

Henry Rollins 2011

Do you really want to make friends with China?