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- What Do You Do
- What Does Anyone Know
- Pomodoro
- Timing: NOT Everything
- Picking Up Where You Left Off
- Look! Look!
- Why ‘Affordable Housing’ Fails
- Computer Backup Hell
- In Search of Nectar
- Fake Cowgirl
- One Things that Changed My Life
- Ghost Gifts
- Birthday Pain
- Missing Thereness
- Awaiting Profundity
- Smart Superstition
- Willing to Change Your Mind About Islam?
- Happy Birthday Mother
- Feckless
- The Parental “Conversation”
- A New Wrinkle I Can Live With
- Chasing the Dragon
- TSA – the Most Hated Part of Freedom to Travel
- Benefits of Harvesting Rainwater
- Separation Bookends
- Taking Too Much
- Lessons in Deadheading
- Shorting the Shortcut
- Best Water Bottle
- Do Not Envy
- Incorrect Sentiment
- When Mom Dies
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- This Is My Brain on Paper
- Making History
- Newness
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- One Thing
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Tag Archives: dementia
Awaiting Profundity
I’ve delayed posting, hoping to find a neat, poetic way to tie up the major events of this last year. It’s been about letting people die, helping people die, and honoring people who die. In April, my mother died. I’d … Continue reading →
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Separation Bookends
“I can do it” (implying “better than you can”) is an utterance we hear almost as soon as toddlers can speak in full sentences. Sometimes before! (“me do! me do!”) From toddler-ignorance through young adult-flamboyance, there’s an egoistic (not as … Continue reading →
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