Air Quality Alert in Central New York is at the highest "hazardous" level today.

I would not give him the time of day based on your lifetime experience with him. He was not a good

or even decent brother to you when it mattered most...in your times of need.

I received a call out-of-the-blue from a cousin who urged me to call my long-time estranged twin sister. The estrangement had been my choice based on her malicious actions toward me nearly 20 years earlier. The reason for the urgency? Unbeknownst to me, my twin had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and was hospitalized with no hope. I made the phone call and she literally could barely talk, but she told me she was sorry of her own volition as if she couldn't leave this world without first apologizing to me. She died several hours later.

All I ever did was nurture her and never did anything to hurt her. So I have very mixed feelings about making the phone call. Not making it would not have made any difference in my life. She caused her own premature death. She had 20 years to apologize or, better yet, why did she not think doing what she did to me would do anything but hurt me deeply. She didn't care because her standing in our seriously dysfunctional family was more important to her than having any semblance of a mature adult relationship with me.

Guilt trips (but he's your brother) are usually laid on us by good-hearted people who have not experienced what we have or the perpetrators/their enablers.

Make the decision that's in your best interest.

"He doesn't need help..." Yeah, right, Ms Boobert. Teens boys call 911 all of the time when their

pissed off fathers start throwing them around the house. Just normal life for the crazy "adult" (in name only) Booberts.

I just watched the 1st episode of Season 7 with the fraternity brothers. Great outcomes for all of

the young men.

I binged the 4 episodes of MerPeople about professional mermaids/men on Netflix yesterday.

I became very engrossed in the cast members' stories and rooted for them to get their happy endings. This article is about one of the mermaids named Sparkles (contains spoilers):

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/mermaid-sparkles-merpeople

I watched her Netflix special today and it's hilarious as well as spot on! She's one-of-a-kind.

Yes, I know what the ARC link I included states. I happen to have been a regular blood donor and

based on my personal experience with the negative side of blood donation, I stand by my opinion: minors should not be "recruited" to be blood donors when it's an invasive procedure with potential adverse complications.

I read David Grann's book 5 years ago this month. I look forward to watching the movie based on

Jim Gray's excellent review and recommendation. Definitely an important part of American history that needs to be told.

They used to commit people to the insane asylum for a lot less than the gibberish she's spewing.

Oh, Humpty Dumpty tRumpy, don't you know calling women "nasty" is so 2016?