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Tiger Woods spoke today for the first time since he's been found out! And as a wife, mother and woman, I am trying to sort out my feelings for all of this.
Crime vs punishment. The public hero vs the private man. What to know and where to let go. I imagine everyone has an opinion on this. And I imagine I have mine as well. Mine yet is not so self defined and that's why I want to write it out...to find out. (I've always believed that if you're willing to take the time and write your feelings, they'll eventually sort themselves out on the page...we'll see). The media is obsessed with the “fall from grace”. I think to a tremendous extent, they create the monster. It starts with a person with unusual talent. And as we can witness all this week and next at the olympics, talent is not enough, an incredible need to achieve through hard work and dedication takes that talent to the top. You don't get there if you don't really want it or work at it. So Tiger became a legitimate hero. And the media loves to love somebody. The frenzy begins. They want to be associated with the hero. They want to be the first with the hero news. They want the hero to be there for them. And there's a lot of media. Think about it. All the TV, all the sports talk shows radio and TV, magazines of all shapes and sorts and specialties, newspapers in city after city, advertisers who want to capitalize on the hero's popularity, social media,
paparazzi and all of us individuals with our phone cameras, etc. And that's really just the tip of the iceberg!

The question is...is college still valuable in today’s weirdly changing world?  Now I’m not really asking this question solely out of the hope of not having to pay for college as my kids line up to go through for the next 12 years.  I don’t take that lightly though, because if they each take 4 years, that’s 20 years of college we’ll pay for.  And yes, we should have been saving all these years, it just seems like it should have taken longer to get to this point.

But all along I’ve been setting them up for 2.5 years and they’ll have to get it done in that time.  I think it’s possible.  They are smart, I think they can get their degree quickly.  And then maybe they can continue on for more.  At least that’s my husband’s hope.

But how important is that college education?  The debate is on!

Not! Ok here's my complaint...
Why do all doctors of all kinds maintain the same hours that most people work and most
schools follow? 9 to 5 with an hour, maybe even two hours off for lunch!!! (Well I'm
pretty sure the doctors aren't off for 2 hours, but their phone is!)
Ok it makes perfect sense if you're a stay at home mom with pre-school age kids, but
otherwise we are so out of luck!
First of all does the doctor ever just want to see you once? NO. No matter what your
illness, they want follow up after follow up to make sure you're as ok as you can be.
And this is a whole other gripe that I have. You get really bad, really fast service all to
get you back so you & your insurance company can be billed all over again.
But what I'm really wondering is why am I the only one who's ever tried to figure out a
better schedule for doctors. Don't they know that most people don't get sick Monday
thru Friday from 9 to 5? Last Friday night my daughter casually mentioned that her ear
hurt. I casually ignored it.