My godmother, Grace, requested this to be read at her funeral ( Read more... )

I finally decided to go ahead with the angiogram and received two stents on the 14th. I spent the night in the hospital and went home the next morning. I packed a bunch before I went in and we've continued at a slower pace since. Dave did a lot in one evening and that kept us on target for our moving day on August 9 ( Read more... )

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This time last year I had a resurgence of the arm pain I had after taking Levaquin. I thought that was the cause but it turned out to be these ossified ligaments I later learned about. My guess now is that the coughing and sleeping on an extra pillow as a result tweaked my neck in such a way that it drove the bone closer to the nerves. My Levaquin ( Read more... )

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My latest guest blog entry, entitled What It's Like To Sing The Blues, has been posted on No Longer Quivering.

Today is forever cemented in my mind as "Chavi Day," the day each year when her family and friends mark her passing and celebrate her life and her spirit.

As always I like to remember Celtee's poem about Chavi, which really captures her spirit and her presence in our lives through our online community ( Read more... )

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Rumors are flying that starting up this new super-particle-accelerator will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth. They flip the switch, so to speak, tomorrow. Other rumors say 2012 is when everything comes to a grinding ( Read more... )

Randy Pausch, famous for his Youtube video of his final lecture, dies at 47 from pancreatic cancer. I saw him give the same lecture on the Oprah show recently. It was amazing and I am sure at least part of the credit goes to the parents who instilled the values he lived by and provided such a good start in his life. It is a shame he couldn't have ( Read more... )

There's a letter in the Since You Asked column on Salon today from someone who had both her laptop and her backup hard drive stolen in a burglary--a good reminder of why off site backups are so essential and why having your photos also scanned and uploaded to a website makes good sense too ( Read more... )