Third of world's amphibians 'on edge of extinction'

Deb, that is horrific to me. Those little creatures are everywhere here, and I hear the chorus of the frogs in my little pond at night.

I don't know exactly what one would term them, but I find these tiny little frog type creatures everywhere on the outside of my house.

The problem is, what can be done?

Here, some folk are trying to have some frog friendly water features in their gardens - a tiny thing, of course.

Remember my having written about the moorhens? I used to watch them propagate in my pond and now I rarely see one or two, and no babies at all. It may have to do with the golf course, but they are supposed to be environmentally friendly.

I most certainly DO remember your moorhens!!!

That is awful.

Deb, some newbie in Australia wants to know about opening a FM radio station. I directed him/her to you. Want a link?

(I made you the sleeping beauty on my fairy tale thread. )

Er - I would have no idea about such a thing, Letty!!!!

I am sure someone else will find the question.

Sleeping Beauty, eh? Well, I DID sleep through a party I was supposed to go to yesterday...dammit!

I've been that route, Deb. I did have to smile at what one of our musician friends observed.

Men get drunk and women get sleepy.

I also smile remembering your reference to pixilated.

Well, that newbie will have to find out about FM radio himself, I guess.

Been down the road a long way, haven't we.

Lol - I weren't drunk! Just exhausted!!!

I know that, Deb. A weak attempt at humor.

Unable to sleep, I was just typing into the ether. I am amazed at how well you handle your job. Anything involving children and the relentless sentinel and often thankless job that you have, would lay me out. It was very difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that many of the students that I taught are dead, in prison, or simply drifting. There are the success stories, of course, and why can't I remember them?

Hmmm - I have been thinking of opening an only half humourous thread about what a burned out, over-specialized middle-aged woman with a bad back and a mortgage can change careers to!!!

(I can't waitress or clean no more - which is the relevance of the back)

To be honest, though I am still intensely engaged and deeply alive when in the room with folk, I feel like I can't go on. As do we all......too relentless, and an ever-increasing culture of blame from above when the same resources no longer cater to an almost doubled population.....

Just waiting to make the wrong call, and have a kid suicide who I thought safe to go home - or, more to the point, whom I know the hospital would but keep waiting in the ER for five hours, then send home....

And - knowing that no matter how often I report abuse to the protection authorities, they will not act - "because [my organisation] is involved - and all we would do is send then to you anyway".

Damn, honey. My daughter did waitress work for a bit, and I think that's why she decided to return to college.

No, you won't get support from anyone who is in administration. It's as though one is in competition with them, somehow. Is it any wonder that the world is at war?

I am lucky, Deb, to not have any discernable health problems at the moment. I even ignore my glucose intolerance now.

When things get too tough, I just write poetry.