La Vida Mexico

  Phlegm. Yup, not bronchitis, not allergies, not Covid, Phlegm. Turns out that it begins a circle of death.   To get rid of phlegm you take steriods, that lower your immune system, that encourage other infections.   Then you take antibiotics to get rid of infections, and they cause endless digestive difficulties. Or, a new doctor, insisting that your lungs are fine (in Spanish) says it is allergies.  So a myriad of allergy medications are tried.  He has his own farmacia. The arrival of a serious bout of sciatica adds a luscious mixture of other medications to the mix.  Most effective is a generous shot of various B vitamins and the continual use of a glucosamine, condroitina and CBD pill that actually helps!  Not falling down so much anymore.  Not walking as far but at least walking. So I designed my own pharma template:  Allergy inhaler, cough medicine, vitamins C and E, magnesium and lots of water, juices, electrolytes, limoada a...

  While in conversation with a friend and her friend, a successful consultant,  he turns to her and says, "she's funny, she should write."  "Oh she does, she blogs." Him, "oh send me some of them.  I will forward them to an expert, he can edit them and fix them and then see if he thinks they would be marketable." Uh, never mind.  I've been writing for over seventy years and if not successfully at least able to support myself and four children, keep roofs over their heads and food on the table.  I wrote and produced a ton of radio and television commercials, newsletters, speeches for some fairly bright and demanding employers and an occasional unpublished story or two. What a great idea, at eighty, to provide my pitiful scratchings to an expert who may be able to clean them up and make me some money? That's great.  Thanks for the offer.  I'm sure you mean well. But I've never been great at taking "constructive criticism."  Undo...