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Today, Friday, April 26, is supposed to be in the sixties and I’m looking forward to going out in to my yard without a coat, I’ve been trying to clean up the yard from the winter, but it is hard when it rains so much and then gets so cold. But everything we do...
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Another month has passed, and I can hardly believe it. It has been a bad one again, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Jason is back in the hospital for the third time in that many weeks. He had a three week siege of vomiting and was unable to...
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Here it is January 25, and I still am thinking about the holidays. Not really thinking of them, but realizing that I still have holiday items to put away. I look at them, and wonder if I will ever get them out again. Each year Jason and I make our holidays simpler and less...
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Another Thanksgiving just passed and as we get older those holidays do seem to come closer together. It will soon be Christmas, and although I have been able to really let go of most of the hype that surrounds each holiday, it still creates a certain amount of stress on everyone just because of...
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I have at least stopped worrying about Jason quite so much, because he is on the mend. What a nightmare it was for several weeks. He had to be on an antibiotic in a PIC Line (which is a line in his left arm which is connected to a pump with antibiotic feeding into...
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Another time for Musings, and as usual I am running like a chicken with my head off. Jason is in the hospital again, and I am trying to see him a couple times a day as well as working at The Center as usual. The one thing I have had to give up is...
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I am doing my column just every other month now, and even then it seems like it comes around too often. There are two reasons for cutting back, I seem to be tired a lot of the time and sometimes I just don’t have a whole lot to say. I know there are many...
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What a different kind of spring we’ve had this year. After the 80 degree weather it almost seems that summer has ended and cool weather is back. It is definitely an unusual year for weather. I haven’t even got my leaves cleaned up in the yard and everything is blooming. Of course the flowers...
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This is the beginning of the thirteenth year of writing this blog, as someone recently called it. I started it in 1998 right after Jack died on the eve of Thanksgiving that year. The person who called it my blog rightly saw that it was kind of a history of my life after Jack....
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Here it is the last column of the year and it seems like I just wrote the first one last month. It has been an eventful, exhausting and draining spiritually in so many ways. Both Jason and I have been in and out of the hospital with nothing very serious fortunately until last month...
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