My Thoughts Exactly by Annette Kniola

So, first thing this morning, I get pulled over. 🚔 The next thing you know, I had helicopters over my head, literally landing down in front of me, squad cars screeching in, guns drawn... Absolute insanity! 😲 (Okay, kidding...Lol! 🤣  Got your attention though, didn't I? For good reason...) Let's revert; So I get pulled over because I was going through a yellow light shortly after it turned green. The cop was very kind and explained what I'm doing is basically going through a red light. He said as soon as I see it turn yellow, doesn't mean I can cross over the white line and say to myself, "Yes, I made it!" He went on to say there's been too many fatalities recently and we all need to learn. Teaching me, so to speak. I told him I do it all the time, and I do!  But never a red light, I always see yellow above my head. He said everybody does, but we have to learn the rule. Once you see it yellow, doesn't mean you can continue on. That means

Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, You in mid-air, Where are the clowns? I am hoping your remember this song, sung by Judy Collins way back in 1975.  I was only seven then, but this song has never left my soul. It's very deep. Send In The Clowns It's not so much as the song that brings me to write about, it's about one such clown and the movie, The Joker.  It's truly no joke. Here's why; Less than a week after "The Joker" was released, I wanted to go see it. I personally was not caught up in what entailed social media wise, other than the fact I love Joaquin Phoenix. All of his work that he has done as an actor and knowing he lost 50 pounds just to play this part made me curious. When I walked into the movie theater, I saw a cop. I asked him why he was there. I have never seen a cop inside a movie theater patrolling.  He explained to me that is was the movie, The Joker, is why. I told him I didn&

'Do you believe me?' ' Do you still love me?' Those are the words of a young girl by the name of Brooke Skylar Richardson. She was accused of killing her newborn baby and burying her in the backyard of her home in 2017. All the while, no one had any idea she was close to full term on her pregnancy. Her trial just started last week. Can you imagine what she had been thinking in the back of her mind for all those months prior?  Knowing, yet keeping it a secret? I find this all very very sad.  The reason I call this blog, "Dear Mommy", because I not only want her Dear Mommy to read this, but to all Mother's worldwide to please talk to your kids. Understand who they really are.  Don't make them be who "you" want them to be,  appear as how "you" want them to appear, or to only think on "your" terms.  No wonder kids these days are messed up!  And I as a mother of 4 boys see this all very clearly when I talk to m

I have a theory and I feel it's a pretty good one.  Simply put, our water is contaminated! From reading my last blog, "Breathless", which clearly gave you the indication I can't breathe, let alone I have been in and out of doctors since January, fighting who knows what. And this is not just me, it's many people I know in Southwest Florida.  The most recent; Enterobacter cloacae is a nosocomial pathogen that can cause a range of infections such as bacteremia, lower respiratory tract infection, skin and soft tissue infections, urinary tract infections, endocarditis, intra-abdominal infections, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and ophthalmic infections.   That's what I am still fighting and it's causing my voice to be so raspy and my breathing to be so difficult. I do believe it's connected to the green algae blooming all over SW Florida.  And the primary algae found here is the cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa . It is able to pr

First and foremost I want to wish all the fathers a Happy Father's Day!  I recently took a trip to Wyoming. I went because there was good reasoning behind it. I needed to find a place where I could actually breathe. I don't feel well anymore. So I looked up the cleanest and best state for air quality, and it was Wyoming!  So off I went, and wow, what a difference it made.  Coming back here was daunting. When I did, I feel breathless once again. 😞 And so many asked why I was going there via Facebook. This is what I wrote back in a post. And I tell you, being alone may not be all that great, but doing something for yourself may be that much greater.  I wrote; So many of you ask why I'm here?  This is why... "In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man/woman needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical

A few weeks ago when I was working out of Southwest Florida Regional Airport, I came across a situation I will never forget and was thankful I was there at the right place and time. It was a long day for me, and I was waiting on a flight for a group to come in at 11:28pm, to be exact.  As time went on, so did the weather up north. The winter storms began to brew even harder and the fog here in Florida started to thicken.  My flight was then delayed until 1:15 am, so I had time to hang out and watch a little Netflix. So as I sat upstairs in the airport, in a nice quiet place off to the side, a young woman, clearly drunk, a young girl, maybe 14, and a baby, who looked to be around 9 months old, show up.  Trailing behind is a woman cop on her Segway not looking too happy. I sat there for quite some time, practically 45 minutes, and could not help but to listen because they physically were less than three feet from where I sat.  I heard everything and it's sad to see how our chi