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Feb.11.2013
Trouble loomed as I walked upstairs to get dressed for the third and final day of my first round of chemo.
My mind and body had begun to betray me after another sleepless night fed by nausea and insomnia. I needed help in a big way. Mary Lou agreed to take me to Parma.
Killing myself...
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Feb.05.2013
After a morning of talk and pre-chemo meds, Rick the nurse hooked up the Cisplatin around 1 p.m. and cancer treatment began in earnest. I encouraged Mary Lou to go to work. I'll be fine, I insisted. I had my iPod, David Copperfield and this small notebook that I’m filling at...
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Sep.28.2012
Do you remember the cassette tape or even, gasp, the 8-track tape? Because of these tapes and their corresponding players, music could be portable. We no longer were confined to our record players and consequently our homes when we wanted to listen to music. Then came the advent...
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Mar.27.2012
I woke up happy.
Oh, I had to get up in the dark and go to work,but my soul was happy and grateful.
Happy because I throughly enjoyed my week away from the daily grind,and grateful to have my inner peace restored.
I came home and fixed my kids dinner, then headed out for a brisk walk.My iPod...
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Feb.23.2012
I want to wake up and know where I'm going,I want to go where the rivers are overflowing,I'll be ready.~ Tracy ChapmanMy iPod is set on shuffle as I begin my walk in the early spring sunshine. It had been another stressful day at work, and a good, brisk walk was exactly what I needed to clear my...
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Nov.06.2011
Here I am on a Sunday morning, all alone. My kids are working and I have no commitments until later in the afternoon. I'm a single mother, so 'alone time' is rare and valuable and to be cherished. And trust me, I do cherish every moment I get because it means uninterrupted time to write. Usually I...
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Oct.04.2011
I like this idea - what would the major character from works of literature be listening to on their iPod? It is a fun speculation. However I must - OK, I will - point out that Kafka himself was tone deaf. While once staying in a small village he complained that it was his luck to be across the...
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Sep.28.2011
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Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled, as expected, the new Kindle Fire. But a couple of comments.
I've been an Apple guy for a long time, over twenty years, have always bought Apple productes and operating systems, even when they were problematic. But there'...
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Jul.21.2011
I was so excited about the camping trip. Finally some time out of the city. No phones, TV or other incendiary device, meaning a gadget I might burn in a fire pit. We set up the tents - one for us, the other for the dog whose abode is twice the size of ours. People walk by with their dogs, wave...
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Jun.05.2011
People often as me, "When you you write?" And rather than seem a smart ass, I answer the question somewhat conventionally, i.e., "In the morning, almost every day." That's true, but the larger truth is that I write constantly.
Constantly?
Let me give you my most recent example...
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