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My father had major surgery on Wednesday. There were some concerns with this. My father has COPD, and surgeons really don’t like to put COPD patients under with general anesthesia. My father needed to have this surgery done, and his heart was strong enough to clear him for the surgery, but there was still a [...]
Today is one of my favorite holidays, the time when the walls between what-we-know and what-we-dream are particularly thin, a time of masks and costumes and candy, a celebration of the spooky, the mysterious, the surreal. Sadly, I’ve been far too distracted and disorganized this year to come up with a costume. I don’t even [...]
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. I would like to take a moment to remember our fallen soldiers. When I say “our” fallen soldiers, I don’t just mean U.S. soldiers, I mean all of our fallen soldiers, on all sides of past conflicts around the world. Memorial Day began to honor and mourn both [...]
“Nothing in this book is true.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle I love April Fool’s Day. Well, let me clarify. I like jokes and pranks that are inclusive, that knowingly wink to people and say, “This is clearly not true, but wouldn’t it be wonderful and funny if it were?” To me, the best pranks are [...]
As excited as I get for autumn, Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving, I get just as excited for the winter holidays. Sure, sure, winter is cold, windy and frequently snowy and icy beyond all reason (at least in the part of the world where I live). Sure, it gets dark excessively early in the day. Sure, the [...]
Happy Solstice, everyone! We had a very nice Solstice this year. Because of our finances (which I’ll blame on the lousy economy), we had a smaller Solstice this year than in previous years. But we all got some great presents and spent the day slacking around the house, playing with our new toys. Then I [...]
