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This is a repeat of my Mother’s Day diary entry from 2013. It’s still very relevant!

When you have kids or grandkids, in this day of iPhone photos and videos, you are ALWAYS comparing pictures of the little ones with your friends and the people you meet. And, of course, your kids (or grandkids) are the most beautiful ones of all.

This thought reminds me of being in the hospital and giving birth to my own son thirty-five years ago, when I had a strange disease called pre-eclampsia, which is what probably led to my brain bleed in 2004, because it involves very high blood pressure and weakened a blood vessel in my brain.
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Whitley Strieber offers his first impression of the Roswell Slides and, as one might expect, it’s likely to remain one of the most fascinating things ever said about them, Roswell itself and the whole issue of alien contact. As Whitley has said, "I am certain that the Roswell Incident happened because one of my uncles was present at Wright Field and witnessed the arrival of the debris. He and his commanding officer, General Arthur Exon, gave me descriptions of what they knew about the debris, what had happened to cause the secrecy, and what was thought of what the materials represented. I used their statements as the basis for my novel Majestic." To read Whitley’s Journal: The Roswell Slides, click here.
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The Roswell Slides may be images of the mummy of a two year old human child, according to the placard beside the body, that researchers involved said during, before and after the presentation could not be deciphered. As our news story reveals, it was indeed possible to decipher it–assuming that the work done on it is not itself a hoax.

The image may be genuine, but at the same time, critical analysis of the placard apparently was not done.
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 Changes in medicine are finally leading to changes in how medicine is taught at some university hospitals. Now, in addition to learning how the body works, aspiring doctors are having to learn how the medical system, itself, works.

At the University of Michigan Medical School, second year students spend class hours improving their communication and negotiation skills – something that will be important to them for working as part of a medical team, sharing options with their patients, determining with colleagues who gets top-billing as lead author on a research paper, and explaining how the whole thing works to the outside world.
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