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you know in an interdependent world, this self-reliance thing is pretty much bunk and can be taken WAY, WAY, WAY too far 2009-01-21 - 10:08 a.m. You know, you can take this "you're on your own" crap a little too far. Nasty little story in today's nola.com about an 8 year old boy and his mother, Katrina survivors -- apparently horribly traumatized Katrina survivors -- who fled to a suburb of Detroit. The widowed mother home-schooled the boy, and apparently they had little contact with anyone else except the clerk at the liquor store. The clerk couldn't help but notice that, several times in the past week, the boy came to the store alone and made his purchases (milk and food, not liquor!) with cash. He asked where the mother was and the kid blew him off. Finally, I guess when the cash ran out, the kid showed up with the mother's credit card. The clerk explained that he had to speak to the boy's mother. The kid said, "She's in a better place." That's right, friends and neighbors. She had died. She had freakin' died. Just like that. At age 41. "Of natural causes," although the sniffy tone of the article suggests that the reporter suspects complications of alcoholism. I'm sorry to say that this reader does too. And she died over 10 days ago, leaving the kid to try to soldier on alone. They're looking for other relatives, but the father died several years earlier, whether in Katrina or some other way, they don't inform us, so good luck on that. The whole sorry tale has the makings of a Joyce Carol Oates short story, and it even has a Detroit suburban setting. Too bad it's true instead of something to cause a pleasant shiver by the fire on a cold night. later I forgot to mention that, on Monday evening, as DH and I were wrapping the satsuma tree in anticipation of the hard freeze, first a Great Egret and then, going in the other direction, a White-Winged Dove flew by. Neither one was very high. Perhaps they'd never seen a satsuma tree being wrapped before? Is this the winter of the White-Winged Doves on the northshore, or will they become a permanent member of our avifauna? Stay tuned. And, oh yeah, I guess I have to edit my template now to remove the highly indignant calls for impeachment against the Pretzeldent. However, I couldn't resist leaving up the "Bush Knew" headline from the New York Daily Post. Because I'm a Scorpio and we never forget. Even though everybody else already has. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford