My father is in the hospital. For more than a week now we’ve been on a roller coaster of days that often start with the phrase “Are you kidding me?” We also seem to say, “How did that happen?” a lot these days. There’s no end in sight right now. Even with this all swirling [...]
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If we were to travel back in time about five years, you would find me starting out my day around 6:00 am. I would get up, take a shower, do my hair and put on make-up, eat my cereal, kiss my husband and head out the door for a day at the office. I would [...]
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Labor Day 2010. It was unseasonably cool and breezy that morning, making our plan to enjoy one last day at the local pool seem less appealing. What should we do with our last day of summer, we wondered. My husband grinned: “Three magic words come to mind,” he said. “Let’s go shopping,” I ventured. Uh, no. “Kane. [...]
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One of the things about living here is we tend to wax poetically about all the simple joys of summer. We talk about spending time outside, enjoying the warm weather and smelling the summer flowers. We talk about taking bike rides and swimming for hours. It’s about this point in the summer season that I wonder where those [...]
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