Grieving is like the receding tide
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I don't know if you've ever spent much time at the beach - a real beach, not the side of a pond or swamp. The "work" of grieving is like the receding tide. At first you don't see any progress, and your "shore" is just buffetted by endless large waves of grief. They toss rocks at you, and slither the sand out from ( Read more... )

Good Friday - The Happiest Holiday !

I used to think of Good Friday as the saddest, soberest, most depressing holiday.  
(Second only to Valentine's Day when divorced, fat, and middle-aged, of course, haha.)
 Until today (Good Friday, 2012), when my brilliant son, Petey, put a new spin on it.  
That boy really has his head on straight sometimes.  
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He ( Read more... )

Dear Ashley and James,

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Dr. William Sears is/was one of the advising physicians for the La Leche League.  He is a pediatrician who had 8 of his own children.  He has written several books that are still in the LLL libraries.  The Fussy Baby is one favorite.  I  ( Read more... )

I came up with a new philosophy of life - my life anyway.  
I'm trying out this new life philosophy on myself lately (when I remember).

"Try again.  Sooner."

It's not always (or with me, it's usually never) about steady progress, discipline, etc.  Sometimes it's about failure.  And restarting.  But my new philosophy is, rather than beating myself up ( Read more... )

Never joke about toilet seats !

That thing they say about Karma biting you in the butt..... It's true !  Freakishly True !  
The Karma's true, the “biting” is true, and the um....location is true !

I just made fun of a FB friend of mine who posted, "how do you know your parents love you?  you're a grownup with your own house but they still show up ( Read more... )

I'm all excited. I'm getting a math lesson in 2 hours !

No one makes math come alive and be relevant and fun better than my son, Petey.  Where was he when I was in high school?  (Better not ask him that one.  That extra Minor in Biology he got to go with the extra Minor in Math, while he was acing that B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 3 fewer years ( Read more... )