I don’t usually tell the end of the story first – but tonight I am going to. Because while the ending is sad, in quite another way, it was…… well, amazing! So here it is – I got the call…
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The clock just struck midnight – more correctly, all four of our clocks that chime just struck midnight. I just walked in from spending the evening with Arlene Johnson and my friend Roger, who entered St. Vincent hospice this afternoon….
It’s been a quiet day today, Easter 2011; Janet and I spent the day alone. Don’t get me wrong – if you have followed this blog for any length of time, you know that we enjoy each other’s company and…
For many reasons, this has been a sad week – the illness of Roger (see yesterday’s post) and watching his family deal with the seemingly inevitable conclusion to a long fight with cancer; and then today, the father of Pam,…
Janet and I just returned home from visiting our friend Roger in the hospital. I wrote about him and his fight with pancreatic cancer in a blog entitled “He Ain’t Heavy – He’s My Brother” on March 12th. I have…
Well, it’s April 15th, and unless the 15th falls on a Saturday, Sunday or federal legal holiday, it is Tax Day – when our tax returns are due. But oddly, this year, none of the above situations has occurred, yet…
I went to the dentist today. I think I have twenty four crowns and eight veneers, so you might think that this is a scary visit every six months for my check-ups. Those of you who have been following this…
I got all inspired writing about Yuri Gagarin and Frank Borman and all the space stuff last night, and frankly, I used to be quite interested in space. Especially when I was younger, around the time of the first space…
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday April 12, 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of STS-1, the first lift-off of the shuttle Columbia, from launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 12, 1981. And for those of you old enough to remember…
Hi! I’m back. For those of you who have been following this blog, yesterday was the first day that I have not written a post in 49 days. And if you read my last entry, you know that I was…