My dad's in the icu in critical condition with complications from his Parkinson's. I'm underway headed to Dallas now to join my mom and sister. The SO will be holding down the fort in Arizona until further notice. Unsure what kind of ~ma to ask for, but peaceful passing is certainly among the options.

It's official!

This morning the finalization hearing for the little guy's adoption was held. He's ours!

After a week in the hospital, my father did die, on Good Friday. I was able to be with him, holding his hand, at the end. We will be holding a private service on Monday, April 4th in Dallas, TX, where my mom now lives next door to my sister and her family. In lieu of flowers, consider a donation to Remember the Children, a charity that Bernie supported during his life.

My dad was an extraordinary man who influenced countless lives. Although we are sorry to have lost him here on earth, we know where he is now, and we celebrate a life well lived.

If you would like to leave thoughts, you may do so at [link] where the family will see your memories and condolences.

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Could use some Buffista -ma. I'm on travel for work and my 88-year-old Dad has been admitted to the hospital with probable pneumonia. Good thoughts welcome.

It is that time of the year when I'm doing a lot of bike riding (when I'm not hacking up a lung, at least) and raising money to help Moveable Feast.

I have had the great opportunity in the last year to work at this organization and doing so has just strengthened my belief that the work they do here in Maryland makes lives so much better for our neighbors living with life-threatening illnesses. If you'd like to help, go here to donate: Support my Ride!

Thank you, Buffistas, for all of your support over the years! You all are a generous bunch of folks, as we all know. Plus, very pretty! XO

I'm stuck because my ride to my dental surgery fell through. Any Buffistas able to drive me to my oral surgeon's place at 9:30 and drive me home when done?

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Hi! I'm needing the power of Buffistas in order to get my quota of Facebook likes on a piece I wrote for a beer website, which pays me almost double if I'm able to get 400 Facebook shares (through the site) in 30 days. This one seems to be stalled out at 128 (sob!) so if you are so inclined, please share on your Facebook page, using the Facebook share icon just above the title of the piece, "Cask Ale's Journey into the Modern Beer World." [link]

This is the same piece that another publication eventually rejected after engaging me to write it (earning me my first "kill fee") so I have all sorts of insecurity feels about it. Thanks in advance!

Hey, y'all - I am actually in the same boat with a second article published on the same site as the cask article only one day after. (Makes it hard to pimp effectively!)

Anyway, this is about beer and food and science, and I got to talk to a kickass lady scientist and a chef and really nerd out during my research and writing of the piece. If you could go read and share on Facebook using the icons above the title of the piece on the page itself, that would be so awesome.

These low FB share numbers on both features are killing the shred of self-confidence I still had that I have anything interesting to contribute to the conversation.

3 Overlooked Beer Styles to Pair with Food.

Any Denver istas online? I have someone stranded at the Denver bus station. Please call my cell [deleted] It's my learning disabled brother so I'm fairly freaked out.

Edit: My heroes. Thanks

Prayers and vibes requested for my mom. She ended up back in the hospital on Saturday night. She had a fall, which was not a huge deal, except I had to call paramedics to help me get her up. But she was also starting to show confusion and incoherence, so the paramedics brought her in. It's been diagnosed as an infection (she has a wound on her toe we've been fighting a couple/few months, fucking diabetes), that's gone septic. They put her on IV antibiotics, and she seemed better yesterday, but then by the evening she was confused again and agitated and kind of incoherent. The doctors say it's not that unusual to go in and out of coherence when fighting an infection that's gone to the blood stream, but it still freaked me right out. I'm very much hoping that the antibiotics will do their job quickly and bring her back mentally, but then there's still the toe to deal with. It's her big toe, and she already has bad balance issues, so she can't really afford to lose an important one like that.

So anyway, very worried and feeling the lack of SO super-strongly (yes, I have a brother, but he doesn't do supportive), plus super-resentful of things like having to go to work or take out the trash when I want to either focus on her, or completely check out mentally and not focus on anything.