Odds and Ends

First I would like to welcome some new bloggers to my blog (WRITE,WRITE,WRITE). Let me introduce them: Steve Coleman is a nephew of mine. He works as an actuary for an insurance company in Portand, Oregon. I am guessing, but I think Steve might live in the town of Wilsonville, Oregon. (You would think I would know where my nephew lives, wouldn't you!) Well, the reason I say Wilsonville, Oregon is that when I check the map with the red dots on the right hand side of my blog which shows who is looking in on my blog, and I click on a red dot up near Oregon, the name WILSONVILLE, OREGON comes up. I think that is Steve. (Watch Steve write a blog now and tell me that I am wrong----He would be delighted to do just that!!) Steve is the best poetry writer in the family although there is an eight year old girl by the name of Maddie who lives down South someplace who wrote a poem about a horse which you can read here who is very good also. Steve is coming for a visit on April 1st and will have breakfast with us in Grafton and that will be nice.
The next new blogger is my brother Donald Coleman. Donald lives in Charleston, South Carolina. We think of him as an historian, but he was also a businessman. He is a great speaker and can write well too. I look forward to more contributions from him. Did you read the poem about his wife? It is short but full of feeling.
Zorro is a current student of mine that I am tutoring. He is in medicine and speaks Irdu,Punjabi,Saraiki,and English.That's FOUR languages (count them!)His job keeps him from writing a lot on the blog, but you can read the interesting stories he has written by checking back using the "ARCHIVES" tab.
If you look on the list of contributors, you see the name "GABA". I have no idea who gaba is. I have gaba's e-mail address and sent an e-mail to him/her so stay tuned....My last new blogger has the name "QUEENOFCATS. This person is a female patient at the Beaumont Nursing Home and I hope she will contribute some writing to the blog.
Now for some other news.....I had the distinct pleasure this evening of attending a one hour lecture at the Lazare Research Building of UMass. The subject of the lecture was Taking Care of Your Heart. I learned a lot in that one hour, but to put it in a nutshell here it is: Do you want a healthy heart? Do this: EXERCISE! EAT FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES! CHECK YOUR CHOLESTEROL! WATCH YOUR WEIGHT! I learned that UMASS is the #1 Heart hospital in Massachusetts and (get this) the #2 Heart hospital in the United States. This UMass is becoming something special indeed!