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Sep.23.2009 Saying good-bye: preschool style My older daughter turns 4 in November and she recently started her second year of preschool. Saying good-bye to her at pre-school has never been much of an issue. On her first day of preschool when she was not quite three, I was able to hold my tears until we were outside the classroom and the hugs...	Sep.23.2009 Saying good-bye: preschool style My older daughter turns 4 in November and she recently started her second year of preschool. Saying good-bye to her at pre-school has never been much of an issue. On her first day of preschool when she was not quite three, I was able to hold my tears until we were outside the classroom and the hugs...
Sep.23.2009 Two Dead Rabbit Tales Heathcliffe was nine years old when she died -- pretty old for a rabbit. She came to get me that day. I was reading on our screened porch, its view of the mountainous southeast corner of Rocky Mountain National Park just visible above the pages. Her steps, uncharacteristically loud, got my nose...	Sep.23.2009 Ode to My Teeth One by one you entered my life.Small, white buds, you burst through firm, pink sod,Glopping reluctantly through pureed carrots,Coating yourselves with sodden Zwieback,Hacking relentlessly at the slats of a folding play pen. Two─four─eight─you multiplied in glorious profusion,Small blooms replaced...
Sep.23.2009 Diamonds and Rust : My First Loves The Diamonds and Rust Series is a trubute to all the people I never said goodbye to. I gave up my first love for a boy, and boy ... did I regret it. But there's a valuable lesson about relationships in this true tale of a boy and a horse that started long ago. I was born a cowgirl, but my...	Sep.23.2009 Be positive, be inspired Profound, guttural, deep.. Let us see.. love you.. deeply.. profoundly.. let me suckle.. final moment.. beauty.. forever.. heart.. bye..
Sep.23.2009 Saying Goodbye, Again The first time I left my husband, I chickened out and came back home after two and a half months. At first, my brand new single life had been exciting and scary, and for a couple of months, the exciting part won out. I spent my time teaching and writing, fielding Match.com dates, and trying to...	Sep.23.2009 The Sun's Setting Fast I've said good-bye to many things in my life: clothes that didn't fit me anymore, homes, schools, I said goodbye to pets I loved, and to my grandparents who I adored. Yet nothing was more bittersweet when I said good-bye to Pleasant Hill, California, the town I lived in for twenty-seven years. The...
Sep.23.2009 Saying Good-bye to the Past Watching a video clip from Wordcamp, I was struck by how young everybody in technology seems these days - how it was only yesterday I was the young thing, drinking martinis, wearing black, and conquering San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Pacific Northwest. And then I realized I was starting to...	Sep.23.2009 Whistling Pines of Home How do I speak this tale of a once bleeding heart, my dear fellow human beings on this trying and often complicated journey called life? Indeed, the unwavering affirmation of life's spiritual dimension got me through in God's loving care. Sometime, during early 2002, in Geneva, Switzerland, I got...

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