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I Miss your hugs...
Do you have that one person that always makes you feel better? The one hug that makes everything better? Just a hug. Just being in their arms knowing that they’re going to do what they have to protect...
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*Please ignore the word choice, grammatical or spelling errors my brain is done for* For the last week or so it feels like things are about to spiral out of control. I am doing all I can to prevent...
View ArticleProlonging Life or Prolonging Death?
Visiting my optometrist today, she shared the story of her mother’s death. Years earlier when she was diagnosed with cancer, she told her daughters she wanted to aggressively pursue chemotherapy – she...
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Cry, Heart, But Never Break - Perfect Picture Book Friday
I was so moved by another writer’s beautiful post about grief, including a picture book recommendation, that I wanted to share it for Susanna Leonard Hill’s PPBF. Here’s the book: And here’s the post....
View ArticleVerse - When to Stop Praying
No kneeling after knee replacement, But can still sit and bow my head– So not yet Prayers unanswered for another: Disease, decline, and death– But not yet Aged, depressed, diminished, But want to see...
View ArticleProvince receives 10,000 survey responses on assisted suicide
Assisted suicide is a topic bound to get people talking. The provincial government found that to be the case as they wrapped up a survey asking the public to weigh in on what the framework should look...
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SCIENCE AND THE RIVER STYX
(This is for you, Dear Friend-With-The-Camera, Air Force Academy Graduate, and DEQ Scientist for our state, retired): I found it ! I finally found it! I have at times brought conversations in...
View ArticlePremature Nausea
Steve’s post “What to pray for” brought the following response before he clarified that “this is not a report on my present condition medically, but rather a projection of possible feelings if the next...
View ArticlePassing Into Eternal Glory
Passing Into Eternal Glory Psalm 116:15 (WEB) Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints. Promise: It is precious for Me to see My faithful ones come home. We have all experienced the...
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Caroline Schelling on Birth & Death by Stuart Dean
Of the many letters Caroline wrote to her lifelong friend Luise, one of the most intense (the 57th Letter) dates from seven years after the 4th Letter discussed in my last post. By then both were...
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Declutter now so your kids don't have to later
Two nights ago, I was watching the quirky and hilarious movie Trainwreck. If you haven’t seen it and have a offish sense of humor, you should check it out. Awkward “spooning” moment in the movie...
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Minimize today to save your kids time tomorrow
Two nights ago, I was watching the quirky and hilarious movie Trainwreck. If you haven’t seen it and have a offish sense of humor, you should check it out. Awkward “spooning” moment in the movie...
View ArticleWhen Breath Becomes Air
“There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly
View ArticleWhat Now?
Mom was by nature a caregiver. Beyond her role as a parent, she helped take care of her sister, mot
View ArticleReview of "The A to Z of You and me" by James Hannah
This book filled me with a sense of bittersweet melancholy from start to finish. Ivo is a young man
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Remembering Papa's Faith
Sometimes I think about the day my grandfather was told he had a terminal illness. Daddy had called to let me know Papa was being admitted directly from his doctor’s office to the hospital. I told...
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When Hope is Gone
This small volume of mostly poetry was published by the estate of Raymond Carver in 1989, one year after the author’s death. It was compiled by his wife, Tess Gallagher, also a poet and short story...
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6 skills I retain after 11 treatments of Chemo: 1. Putting on or taking off a turtleneck without losing the toothpick in my mouth. 2. Driving a car with my knees under the steering wheel. (On private...
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Physician Heal Thyself #FridayFictioneers
Photo Credit @/wmqcolby.wordpress.com Physician Heal Thyself Nothing in the wilderness text had prepared me for this hell. I hadn’t even held a gun since I was twelve years old and even then it was...
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