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Some truths about dogs and floor care:
Dogs are better/more versatile than vacuum cleaners because there’s no need to switch to the hose attachment to get the dog to suck dead spiders off the basement floor. Dogs are better/more thorough...
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It Was a Monday
I am not sleeping, so I will write. Tonight (which is now yesterday) at dinner, Liam asked, “Do you know what today is?” and Jim and I looked at each other, just briefly, before I asked Liam to tell...
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Whatever you Say
An early draft of my first book about my son’s several heart surgeries, included a chapter of upsetting things people said to me. These comments might be seen as microagression, or I may have just been...
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Half-heart, Whole Body: Part Two, B-R-A-I-N-S
Recently, at the behest of our cardiologist, we met with a neuropsychologist who administered a great many tests and even called our son’s teacher for an interview. There was no recent trigger for this...
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Eleven
I wrote this on Facebook tonight. What a blessing it is to forget. Eleven years ago right now, I was drifting off on my very first overnight in a hospital, 22 hours later I would have a living child....
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G is for Graduation, H is for Holter
Staying true to not writing about Liam’s personal life, I’m going to do my best to share only my feelings. Sufficed to say, Liam has never, ever liked Holter monitors, a documented historical fact, and...
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The Fault in Our Hearts
I’ve never read The Hunger Games, or The Fault in Our Stars. It’s not that I’m dismissive of young adult (YA) literature, it’s just not my thing. I also don’t read westerns, mysteries, science fiction,...
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States of Permanence, States of Grace
The Denver skyline shot up during early 1980s, and, my dad helped build it. Dad, a welder, came to Colorado in 1979 for the construction boom. However, for much of his seventeen and half years in...
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I chose not to write blog posts Saturday and Sunday. You can read about what I did instead on Day 26. On Day 27 I did many more things including:… Read more Living Instead of Blogging Part Two →
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The kids and I went trick-or-treating tonight while Jim (he’s battling a cold) handed out candy. It was an evening of irony. Liam was being such a pain in the… Read more So Proud →
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