http://michaeljfox.org/newsEvents_mj...cle.cfm?ID=385


well deserved,
paula

Excerpt from profile:

During her seven years as president and CEO, the foundation has funded more than $90 million in research. Brooks, who now lives in Greenville, maintains a national role by leading fundraising efforts.

This is phenomenal - Congrats (you are also helping improve the image of women in society - thanks!)

Peg

The image of women needs improving? I am far enough behind as it is. Maybe it's just the women I know, but everything of importance in my life has always been centered on women. All I do is take out the garbage and repair a few leaks in the roof. It's probably something I learned from Leonard Cohen. In the order of priorities of the universe, first there are women, then for a long long distance there is nothing, then there are children, and then for a long long distance there is nothing, and then in the far distance there are men, and then comes a very short distance and then there are horses, dogs, fish, and one-celled swamp creatures.
It's so easy being a man now that we have been revealed as being obsolete and not really necessary.
I, for one, welcome our female owners.

You said: "It's so easy being a man now that we have been revealed as being obsolete and not really necessary. I, for one, welcome our female owners."

Thank you for the vote of confidence, but this doesn't negate the role of the male in our society (it just proves to other cultures and some people in our society that women can be just as smart, powerful, and in positions of leadership).

Ahem, remember, I was the boss of 27 full-time and 56 part-time employees and was responsible for nearly 500 kids (elementary students) and their parents, and families. For the life of me, however, I could not even fathom doing that again.

Each year the employees under me filled out evaluatiooon forms (anonymously). And every year there was one eval that was always marked as low as it could go on every area. I was hoping that the teacher was making a mistake and was reversing the low end of scores for the high. I recall sharing my concern with the school superintendent. SHE (note the gender!) said, "If you get all perfect scores, you're not doing your job." I took that one to the bank.

Thanks again for y our kind words. And remember, "You've got talent, too !"
Peg

[The image of women needs improving? I am far enough behind as it is. Maybe it's just the women I know, but everything of importance in my life has always been centered on women. All I do is take out the garbage and repair a few leaks in the roof. It's probably something I learned from Leonard Cohen. In the order of priorities of the universe, first there are women, then for a long long distance there is nothing, then there are children, and then for a long long distance there is nothing, and then in the far distance there are men, and then comes a very short distance and then there are horses, dogs, fish, and one-celled swamp creatures.
It's so easy being a man now that we have been revealed as being obsolete and not really necessary.
I, for one, welcome our female owners. ]


I really wished I had owned you lol lol lol

You have what a lot of people lack and that is a sense of humor so for me you rise to the top like cream in the good old days. Wonder if you are old enough to remember bottles of milk left on the porch with the cream sticking out of the top of the bottle and you broke it off and ran away with it. Women used to go beserk if they thought it was you who did it, lol lol lol lol always the 'you' never the 'me'.

Love YOUR writing and Leonard Cohen. Never see a white building that doesn't take me back to him and the sisters of mercy.

But back to the lingo of today 'Keep on keeping on' or something similisr lol

Thelma,

thanks for saying exactly what i was thinking while reading and chuckling. i post so much that i have to pass on some things but bob's reply cracked me up too!

thanks for the humor - keep it coming bob
paula

Paula Paula Paula

Never a day goes by that I don't think of you and the folks on here and wonder how you are all doing in this struggle that survival has become.

We had some great conversations over the years [can't say arguements] but I enjoyed every one of them. I learned from so many here in so many ways how to keep it together both mentally and physically.

I really do miss the commraderie we all developed as some only signed in to argue their point of the ongoing conversation and in time have come to be friends. I miss the chances now being missed to communicate as free as we all did. But times change in all things including the net.

I am doing an Ancestry of my family and finding things and peoples that I really do wish I had of had the chance to know and others maybe not. Fun thing to do, sometimes, frustrating as hell though at other times. good for the brain I guess.

Stops me from thinking though and clears my thoughts.

You take care girl and someday when you are ready we can communicate all that we don't know about each other and get this friendship where it belongs.

Let the best of all things find out your real address and deliver there.

Greg try posting more we need your friendship!

Bob, Thelma, and Paula . . . I'm a little slow lately - just now got it.
lol

Peg