[My] Life in Wisconsin

New Pics of Baby Sam!

http://bigmak6figure.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Baby_Samuel

It has just occurred to me while I was writing a note to Marie, that it is MORE than wonderful that her name begins with "Ma"

XOXO
Grandma Anne!

Drinking Like a Fish. (Welcome to Wisconsin).

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/GPG0101/399990753/-1/specials01&theme=GPGALCOHOL&template=theme
Please do not read more into this than what is told.
I am not a drinker.
(This is a choice I made, not only for myself, but for my children, a long time ago).

And yet, I am not against drinking. (Nor am I a hypocrite).
I am against drinking to excess, (although at times, as a bartender in various places, I did contribute to that in others, simply by serving them).

Know your own limit.
Take care of yourself, and have enough love and respect for all the others that love you.

XOXO
Anne

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Do you, or someone you love, drink too much?
The Green Bay Press-Gazette is doing a series on the seriousness of drinking in Wisconsin, (but I think it would apply to everyone, everywhere).

Here you will find an interactive map that shows where your own state is ranked amongst drinkers.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/WIS0110/399990694/1979


About this series...

The true story of Wisconsin’s unparalleled culture of drinking isn’t found in a bold headline about a drunken driving fatality or a young person drinking himself to death on his 21st birthday, although such tragedies certainly figure into the picture.

It’s a quieter story, one about the very fabric of life in Wisconsin. And it’s about all of us, even those who don’t drink a drop — doctors and lawyers and jurors and counselors and cops and bartenders.

Gannett Wisconsin Media is exploring in human terms the causes and effects and the costs and benefits of the state’s love affair with the bottle.

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"Stay Dry, or Die" is found here...
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080713/GPG/807130352/0/specials01&theme=GPGALCOHOL
A story of a (now) recovering(?) alcoholic.
But if they are only going to portray the aging male in this series, then I am already upset about it all.

The truth of the matter is that so many YOUNG females are also very compromised by the empty promises of the full bottle...
I know this for a fact.
I know this because I love a few of them.
I know this because it affects at least one of my own daughters.

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Another "label" perhaps.
Maybe too many "labels" that seem to exorcise the realities of the scene.

In my own opinion, we don't need any more labels.
We need personal responsibility. Period. That would be enough.
And this needs to be taught from young, onward, without compromise for maybe, or someday.
"Someday" started a LONG time ago...


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