Sex & Siblings ?

     I know. It's a disgusting title but I wanted something to get your attention. This is serious. Recently I found out and I have heard about this before but didn't pay as much attention to this fact: How many times does a man marry, have children, move so often that the siblings have different last names and don't know of other half-siblings existence.That man or men don't want to tell the new family that they have completely abandoned kids on the Eats Coast, or West Coast, or the Midwest, so they start anew, leaving children all over.
    Besides that, what about families who get spilt up due to foster care and adoption. Adoptive parents no longer have to have sibling contact and most don't because they want their new children to "move on."
    A few years ago a young man stopped by to do some work, said he was getting married soon. Marriage came, and back to work. At the after party he found out the young lady he married was his cousin. Because of names changes, family moving, re marriages he never knew just how close he and his new wife were. They did decide to remain married but won't have children.
     My point is, people, stop jumping into bed with someone you have just met or only had a few dates with. Know them, really know them, background, family history, adoption, foster care, single parents? You really need that information.
      I learned of a half sibling when I was about nineteen and so many years later find out that one brother out of six, happened to be born two months apart from another brother. Parents hide secrets because they don't want to admit to mistakes. Then there are the parents who simply never marry so kids take on either the fathers name or the mothers name. Years pass and they  separate and move. One parent take the son, another the daughter...I could go on with all kinds of examples. Please be careful and parents, you'll get more from your kids by telling them at appropriate times and ages those kinds of secrets. They have a right to know...or do you want them bring a sibling home to marry, after they've already been having sex?
 

Whole Foods, Patience & Television?

      I was going to start my evening by cleaning up this blog and deleting a few things meant to be on here only for a short time, but in a short time this afternoon, I went into what I now realize is  the loss of a well known friend, Television.
     It was a way of compromising. Well more than that; I caved and let my TV go to another room, not mine. The reasons and for whom are not important now, but it's gone, really gone. An old and out-dated model I know now how food and television messed me up.
     During the evening as I sat at the computer my thoughts raced back and forth to TV and food. Here's how it went:

    Eyes darting to one side in the direction of the kitchen, then thoughts of my friendly TV, back and forth actually  mentally listing what's in the fridge. Now saying to myself, I was making changes anyway to whole foods, getting back to Forks over Knives and again my eyes dart to the kitchen thinking and almost smelling. Smelling what I don't know or care, just smelling and hoping I remembered what it was like. Food? TV?
   No, they had to be together. It was like a marriage and now I'm divorced. This time though I didn't need  a lawyer. Finally I told myself to just shut-up!
   But no, I couldn't turn my thoughts off, so not only did I g back to memorizing what was in the fridge, but how good those foods went with certain TV shows. Again, shut up will you! Just shush! So finally I did, but I started checking on line new televisions so I would have one Friday night and watch Blue Blood, with ice cream and even better, scrambled eggs. Oh I need patience and maybe an intervention-or maybe, just maybe a TV, a small one. Anyone.. Anyone?