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December 31, 2009 03:15 PM EST --
The house was quiet today, Christmas Tree unlit, shortly before 2:00 PM on New Years Eve, The fireplace going. Tootie on the footstool in front of me. Tucker in his chair. Frosty mozeyed over . . .
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February 12, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
This is a two-fer holiday. My birthday is tomorrow, and Valentines Day is the 14th.
Valentines Day is kind of one of sort of one of those evil holidays imposed upon us by the martyrhood of . . .
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February 03, 2009 10:06 AM EST --
I'm having a birthday soon. I realize it's all - as in the gray hair, the eye crinkles, forehead wrinkles?
It's all only going to get worse. My new leaf this year to . . .
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December 29, 2008 12:59 PM EST --
Uggy passed away December 24th, 2008. She never adjusted to our home, she never became friendly with us, and we were Ok with that. It's enough for us that we were able to give her a good . . .
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December 06, 2008 03:18 AM EST --
It's like the cat version of the classic movie, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
I call it, Guess Who Came To Dinner and Never Left?
It started on a day last July when it was 105 degrees . . .
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November 15, 2008 10:37 PM EST --
I have two friends who are in the same boat I am in. We are all paraprofessional "Ace In The Holes" for our loved ones who'd be scared to be alive without us.
I do for my . . .
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November 05, 2008 03:57 PM EST --
I found him there on Sunday night, 8 hours after we'd had lunch at the
Golden Corral where I generally hate to go because I'm fat and it makes me sick to be as fat as I am and eat surrounded . . .
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November 01, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
We live in a small rather quiet town, a bedroom community nicely tucked away from the crime and drug infested Capital of our state.
The most excitement me and my merry band of lady hoods . . .
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October 20, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
She spent the last five years of Carson's life doing everything for Carson when he was dying of cancer. She bathed him, cleaned him, lotioned him, fed him, dressed him, drove . . .
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September 11, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Seven months after losing my mom, I felt it was time to start slogging my way out of the grief pit.
To rattle my cage and shake my bones back into something that resembled real life ar - I roundabout, . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:04 AM EDT --
It's been nearly ten months since mom passed away.
I had her things brought to the new house and today, I went through them.
I kept thinking that something, some small thing, I'd run across . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
I headed South last Monday, down to Alabama to close out my parent's house. It's a 550 mile drive, but I took my time getting there. I stopped to see Jack Gosset in Gadsen, the Johnsons at Lake . . .
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May 19, 2008 04:31 PM EDT --
On October 15th of 2006, my mother stood up in the living room of her home, walked three feet and collapsed - suffering a severe GI Bleed.
Despite her insisting to me she did not require an ambulance . . .
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May 17, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
SFs. Stranger Friends. People we have online relationships with that never cross into our daily toss - or maybe sneak in every once in a while. I don't know about you but my online friends . . .
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May 10, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
For the brave who dare to read, I'm wearing my big girl panties on this my First Mother's Day Without She Who Must Not Be Mentioned.
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April 04, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
In 2006 we moved from Dustbowl Ally Texas into Tornado Ally, Arkansas. We bought a nice place out in the country.
Last night was the first time we've ever gotten spooked to the point that . . .
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March 30, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
I wrote a few articles last year before my mother died - not knowing - really knowing - that it was going to be the year my mother died. Some of the titles?
My Mother Is In That Mood . . .
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March 22, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
I was talking last week with a friend of mine when this fell out in conversation:
"When I finally kill my brother, you know I'll be calling you to help me get rid of the weapon don't you?" . . .
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March 21, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
The day started normally. Almost.
Went to get dressed and what did I find?
A BLOODSUCKING Tick who's head was buried deep in the skin under the panty line of my right Thigh. . . .
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March 19, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
As VISA makes it's debut this morning on the stock market as the biggest IPO ever, I'm inclined to write something to acknowledge the sound of boo-coo-bucks jumping the wires to pay for . . .
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