a true friend
is someone
that you can lean on
and be honest to hold
a secert through out
a lifetime
a true friend is someone
you have known
your whole life
or someone that
you feel close to
as where that person
wont stab you in
the back
a true friend
i can say
will not only
guide you but protect
you and help
you on the journey
you are seeking

times may had been tough
when a single parent
doesnt get much guidance
from a man that should be
but i can say every single mother
has the honor of love and means
to achieve there goals and dreams
as teaching each of there love ones
from right and wrong
as being a single parent
im sure you know
its not easy but yet
life goes on, as our strenght
gives us hope and pride
to the highest peak.
to be mother of the year
working 2-4 jobs just to make
ends meet... no man should say
that is lazy... if so then they are
the weakest of the bunch

SIGMUND i love this little guy

sorry
if anyone had missed me

i got sick last sunday
with the chills
and a temp of 101
by the time i got to
the hospitol
i had a temp of 103

i was in the hospitol
a week
and it was the same thing
i end up getting every year

a bactral infection

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the son of famous musical parents who established his own lasting celebrity in two of television's most popular series, "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I.," died Friday at age 95.

Zimbalist died at his Solvang home in California's bucolic horse country, said family friend Judith Moose, who released a statement from his children Stephanie Zimbalist and Efrem Zimbalist III.

"We are heartbroken to announce the passing into peace of our beloved father, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., today at his Solvang ranch," the statement read. "He actively enjoyed his life to the last day, showering love on his extended family, playing golf and visiting with close friends."

Zimbalist's stunning good looks and cool, deductive manner made him the ideal star as the hip private detective ferreting out Hollywood miscreants in "77 Sunset Strip," which aired from 1958 to 1964. As soon as that show ended he segued seamlessly into "The F.B.I." which aired from 1965 to 1974.

At the end of each episode of the latter show, after Zimbalist and his fellow G-men had captured that week's mobsters, subversives, bank robbers or spies, the series would post photos from the FBI's real-life most-wanted list. Some of those pictures led to arrests, which helped give the show the complete seal of approval of the agency's real-life director, J. Edgar Hoover.

The son of violin virtuoso Efrem Zimbalist and acclaimed opera singer Alma Gluck, young Efrem initially appeared headed for a musical career. He studied violin for seven years under the tutelage of Jascha Heifetz's father, but eventually developed more interest in theater.

He became an actor and "77 Sunset Strip" made him a star.

His daughter Stephanie also took up acting — and small-screen detective work, in the hit 1980s TV series "Remington Steele." Her father had a recurring role in that show as a con man.

After serving in World War II, Zimbalist made his stage debut in "The Rugged Path," starring Spencer Tracy, and appeared in other plays and a soap opera before being called to Hollywood. Warner Bros. signed him to a contract and cast him in minor film roles.

He also had a recurring role in the hit 1950s Western series "Maverick," playing con man Dandy Jim Buckley.
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Then in 1958 "77 Sunset Strip" debuted, starring Zimbalist as a cultured former O.S.S. officer and language expert whose partner was Roger Smith, an Ivy League Ph.D.

The pair operated out of an office in the center of Hollywood's Sunset Strip where, aided by their sometime helper, Kookie, a jive-talking beatnik type who doubled as a parking lot attendant, they tracked down miscreants.

Kookie's character, played by Edd Byrnes, helped draw young viewers to the show, and his constant hair combing created the national catchphrase, "Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb."

The program brought Zimbalist an Emmy nomination in 1959, but after a few seasons he tired of the long hours and what he believed were the bad scripts.

"A job like this should pay off in one of two ways: satisfaction or money. The money is not great, and there is no satisfaction," he said.

When the show faltered in 1963, Jack Webb of "Dragnet" fame was hired for an overhaul. He fired the cast except for Zimbalist, whom he made a world-traveling investigator. The repair work failed, and the series ended the following year.

Zimbalist had better luck with "The F.B.I.," which endured for a decade as one of TV's most popular shows.

Perceiving that the series could provide the real FBI with an important P.R. boost, Hoover opened the bureau's files to the show's producers and even allowed background shots to be filmed in real FBI offices.

"He never came on the set, but I knew him," Zimbalist said. "A charming man, extremely Virginia formal and an extraordinary command of the language."
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In 2009 the FBI honored Zimbalist with his own special agent's badge, making him an honorary G-man in recognition of the contributions his show and his character, Inspector Lewis Erskine, made to the agency's reputation.

"We could not have asked for a better character, or a better man, to play his role," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said at the time.

During summer breaks between the two series, Warner Bros. cast Zimbalist in several feature films, including "Too Much Too Soon," ''Home Before Dark," ''The Crowded Sky," ''The Chapman Report" and "Wait Until Dark." In the latter, he played the husband of Audrey Hepburn, a blind woman terrorized by thugs in a truly frightening film.

Zimbalist also appeared in "By Love Possessed," ''Airport 1975," ''Terror Out of the Sky" and "Hot Shots."

But he would always be best known as a TV star, ironic for an actor who told The Associated Press in 1993 that when Warner Bros. hired him he had no interest in doing television.

"They showed me in my contract where it said I had to," he recalled.

"I ended up with my life slanted toward television and I just accept that," he said. "I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all."

In the 1990s, Zimbalist recorded the voice of Alfred the butler in the cartoon version of the "Batman" TV series. That role, he said, "has made me an idol in my little grandchildren's eyes."

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born in New York City on Nov. 30, 1918.

His mother, reasoning that living amid the musical elite was not the best upbringing for a boy, sent him to boarding schools where he could be toughened by others his age. But young Efrem was bashful and withdrawn in school. His only outlet was acting in campus plays.

"I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naiveté, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'" he once recalled.

He was kicked out of Yale after two years over dismal grades, which he blamed on a playboy attitude.

Afraid to go home, he stayed with a friend in New York City for three months, working as a page at NBC headquarters, where he was dazzled by the famous radio stars. Unable to break into radio as an actor, he studied at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse.

During World War II he served in the infantry, receiving a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound in his leg.

In 1945, Zimbalist married Emily McNair and they had a daughter, Nancy, and son, Efrem III.

After his wife died in 1950 he gave up acting for a time to teach at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where his father was an artist in residence. He returned to Hollywood five years later, marrying Loranda Stephanie Spalding in 1956, and she gave birth to their daughter Stephanie.

Zimbalist was preceded in death by his second wife and by his daughter Nancy.

In addition to his son and other daughter, Stephanie, he is survived by four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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Biographical material in this story was written by The Associated Press' late Hollywood correspondent, Bob Thomas.

to save money
and see all
the glory
from yesteryear
as i roam
through
the junk stores
you never know
what the item
maybe
as one catches
your eye
wow. chunk change
i can afford that
as looking more
treasures hidden
away for no
one to see
great memories
from your grandparents
past
the junk from memories
in my hands
is a memory
i shall keep
a token of love
is a history to share
upon others, as great
stories to follow ahead
as the history that has been told
will surprise you
to find unreal
but if you wish to
ask...for a junk
dealer wouldnt even know

love it

WOW!!!!! love it
my snowglobe ( crystalball)

feeling single
and free
after a long struggling
haul as where every case
seem to be heavy
and not small
as you learn
to gain your
trust once again
where learning
more of your humanity
and your inner soul
not wanting to pawn
your loved ones off
to the ones you despise
the most
as you need to
follow your heart
and listen
to the best that
comes your way
not to single out
the world
but yet search the world
through one eyes
and remember that
sweet stories
that have been told
more is yet to come
with a treasure
that will follow behind
a kiss on the forehead
and memories
that will last a life time
stories to give
your grandchildren
when the time is right
at the fullest point
of ones life

these are cool

mermaid fishing

the golden years
from come
which i wish
they would
be gone
as i can still
chew my cud
spit a mile away
jump over logs
and i still
smell like a frog
so far so good
the golden years
doesnt seem to be all
bad
even though
my memory
may stink
but yet my brain
hasent shrunk
for me not to think
and yet
i do wear
a hearing aid
which isent
all bad
i may look
like hell,
i think
i should
brush my hair
dont you agree
if you dont like what
i say,,, then you can drop
your pants and i can kick
your ***

this one is sooooooo awesome

this child
sits
in the cornet
out of mind
out sight
as watching
life go by
and learn
how to give
to others
and be safe
and sound
in the park
as watching
through
the shadows
of the dark
and making
sure there is no harm
yet to come
as listen
to the heart
of the soul
of this young child
at heart
let the child play
without fright

im only human
just like everyone
else
as we often grow
in different ways
learn and speak different
doesn't mean
were not human
with feelings yet
to be seen
as each human
has a disability
or a health issue
where many don't
understand
as they end up
running away
from fear,
but whats the fear
all about when
the person that seek
is just facing you right
through the mirror
of happiness
the story is understand
were not dead were very much
alive with bright stores to be told
wishing to say
those 3 little words
is hard to say.
what wrong with the word love
nothing.. but a shell of opening
the heart and the mind
that opens the door

many may
believe a second
chance can be done
when things often
seem to go sour
in the wrong way
as feeling a second chance
is a word of hope
as to survive in a different
direction
as believe that love
can be at first sight
believe that life is still
alive in the afterlife
as life can be a mess
in some degree
but look and listen
where your heart
beats within the soul

things seem
to be so easy
at time
when everything
else tends to fall
and you feel like
your a failure
when in your not
as you have grab your
self in the corner to pull
yourself up
as feeling life is not fair
as it hard to understand
what a dream may be
when your searching
high and low
knocking your self down
feeling life is hard
well in some degree
where you look
you focus and learn
to be wiser than before
as everyone often
makes mistakes. thats
the way of seeing
through the eyes
of the world,
and opening that door
to a newer chapter
that is about to begin
as we continue to grow
we share a brighter
experience
where the valley we grow
as we share more of our meaning
with the creator. by climbing
to the top of mountain to reach high
of a victory
as we have won

WOW!!!!!!!