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I'm sitting here tonight, after midnight, and I am, as they say, dog tired. We spent the evening helping Kristin as she is recovering from her surgery earlier in the week, and then I started thinking about the funeral service…

The last several days have been filled with all kinds of emotions. There were many of them - the final days of Roger Johnson, finding out that Kristin needed surgery, the excitement of our daughter Jill and grandson Drew visiting…

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…

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…