From my early childhood, I have been captivated by animals. My favorite outings as a kid were going to the zoo and even more exciting; the circus.

I would visit my cousins as often as possible because they had a dog. A dog! How cool is that! When my parents came to take me home, it would inevitably end in tears.

My solace would come by way of dreams, vivid dreams, where me and my dog would run through a field and fall in a joyful tumble where my dog would bark with excitement and smother me with licks all over my face.

While getting a dog of my own was always on my wish list come my birthday, my parents were not animal lovers and to them dogs equaled mess and responsibilities they were not prepared to take on.

This did not stop my love for animals and that only increased once I would go on the aforementioned trips to the zoo and watch in awe the majesty of the big cats and the towering matriarch of an elephant troop.

As I grew up, my love of animals never left me, it just got distracted by my being a typical teenager and young adult when the opposite sex and my education took precedence over most of everything else. To be continued…

Since I began my quest this year to hi-lite the excellent work carried out on a daily basis by so many charitable organizations, a lot of the research I have been conducting has lead me to some very somber conclusions.

It is quite easy to despair at the hatred and animosity perpetrated thousands of miles away. Innocent men women and children being killed in the name of God, or in the name of ancient rights to ancient lands. Continue Reading…

New York Like Never Before!

Due to my auto immune disorder, I try not to step outside too much during the very cold weather that we are currently experiencing.

Still, at least once a day I like to go out onto the balcony from my condo in Brooklyn, where I can see the beautiful Brooklyn Bridge and I feel a sense of peace in its quiet majesty. Continue Reading…

THE MOST IMPORTANT DECADE OF MY LIFE.

At the age of 36, I can say whole heartedly that this is the decade to remember. It is also, to be fair, the first decade that I can remember most comprehensively.

The 70′s started with my birth in England and I was watching the Muppet show in 1979 at the age of 6, so the big stories of the 1970′ s would have gone over my head, including the the OPEC oil crisis,the Yom Kippur war, Roe VS Wade, Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War. Continue Reading…

Yes, another six month of chemotherapy coming up, but its not all bad news!!

Overtime I have gradually reduced the huge amounts of steroids that I was prescribed at a rate of 4mg a week.

So tomorrow I celebrate with the weekly drop and will be on 24mg of medrol; down from 96mg three months ago!!

My breathing today is so much more stable and I have managed to stay out of hospital since May – I thank God for this blessing and the six monthly treatments of cytoxin that I started in January and completed in June.  Continue Reading…