The Globe Coffee Lounge

We’ve got pumpkin pie, apple pie, Boston cream pie, chocolate mousse pie chocolate luv cake, crumb cake, and supafudgy and amazing brownies.

Free cup of coffee with refills when you buy yourself the dessert!

xoxoxo

She is a wonderful reader, and can show you the paths between your past, present and what may be.

Natty gets here around 7pm, and is here until 11ish.  She has no set fee, but it is customary to tip the reader a few bucks, or more if it is a long reading.

Yay!

Our beers are $3 a piece tonight…

guinness

newcastle

sierra nevada pale ale

corona light

tecato

Rebekah is one of the most respected and loved singer/songwriters in the area (and Rob has a huge fan club devoted to his every whim), and just was named Best Singer Songwriter by Creative Loafing (again!). She says Matt Eddy is awesome, and we believe her!

mmmmm sangria, only $3 or $5! And I just got some yummy Spanish wines to use in it, slurp!

p.s I promise, no singing from me!

that August is a really slow news month.

According to the St. Pete Times, the beautiful old oak in front of the Globe was cut down because a city employee saw it and thought that is what needed to be done about it.

While I truly believed that there was more to the story, now I believe I was wrong, and that is what happened.

Now I would like to plant a tree there, maybe go down to Twigs and Leaves and find a good Florida native to put in there.

Tom, next door neighbor and owner of  The Pizza Place, just came in and we talked about the whole situation.  Live and let live is the best policy.

There probably will be a story in the paper (on Sunday maybe? I think it is for the neighborhood times), and I believe that I will look, perhaps rightfully so, like an ass.  Oh well.  Hopefully I’ll learn to keep my mouth shut from now on, and keep my nefarious thoughts to myself.

sigh.

xoxoxo

JoEllen

“…Using a conservative definition, 62.1% of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical; 92% of these  medical debtors had medical debts over $5000, or 10% of pretax family income.

The rest met criteria for medical bankruptcy because they had lost significant income due to illness or mortgaged a home to pay medical bills. Most medical debtors were well educated, owned homes, and had middle-class  ccupations.

Three quarters had health insurance.

Using identical definitions in 2001 and 2007, the share of bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by 49.6%.

In logistic regression analysis controlling for demographic factors,  the odds that a bankruptcy had a medical cause was 2.38-fold higher in 2007 than in 2001.
CONCLUSIONS: Illness and medical bills contribute to a large and increasing share of US bankruptcies…”

read more at

http://www.pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf

from the American Journal of  Medicine, nothing to sneeze at!

We can be clumsy giants, but more often are just wayward dust swirling in storms of our own making.

yay! Starts at 9pm, costs $4