Happy New Year

TweetWow! What a roller coaster ride we had in 2008. While I learned a great deal about myself, my husband and my family and friends, I am certainly glad that this year is about to end. But, I also understand that just because the calendar indicates that it is a brand new year that does [...]

Merry Christmas

TweetYes, I wrote “Merry Christmas”, not Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings or whatever else is suppose to be politically correct these days. I respect all holidays throughout the year and the remembrance that each represents and Christmas is no exception. The spirit of the season is just wonderful. Of course I don’t expect everyone to [...]

Christmas Gifts

TweetHere it is – a week plus until Christmas and I don’t have my shopping done. The decorations are done and the tree has been up for a couple of weeks. I have spent a lot of time online doing some shopping but the one person for whom I wanted to make Christmas extra special [...]

My Support System

TweetI stopped by the office of one of my colleagues last week to see how she was doing. Monica is a wonderful person who is married, has 3 young children and she is also taking care of her parents who live in her home. Her father is a diabetic who is receiving dialysis several times [...]

The Long Thanksgiving Weekend

TweetI don’t know about you but this 4-day weekend was just what I needed. After a wonderful traditional dinner that Kirk and I shared, we kicked off the Christmas season by lighting our tree and enjoying the last of the holiday’s football games. And I knew that I could sleep in the next morning and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

TweetIt’s my favorite day of the year. I love everything about this day – not only all of the traditions that we have created in our family but mostly because of what it stands for. I think that I am the most grateful person in the world today. Since last year, the cancer returned but [...]

Sometimes It Is Best To Say Nothing

TweetFor the past week, I have been pondering about what I wanted to write. After all, I promised that I would make up for the blog that I missed last week when I had a bit of the flu and was not up to writing. And each evening, I would think about a new subject [...]

Keeping My Word

TweetI have not been feeling well for the last several days and still am not up to par. Therefore, as I am not able to post a blog today for this week, I plan to write two blogs next week to keep me up to date. I am sorry for the fact that I am [...]

Keeping My Word

TweetI can’t believe that it won’t be long until I have written a weekly blog for one entire year. As I sat here tonight, I pondered whether I had the energy, even if I did have an idea, to write before the end of this day. After all, who would care? Who pays attention anyway? [...]

A New Beginning

TweetSo I had my surgery on Tuesday and everything went well.  I have tried to stay focused on all of the positive things in my life but I think that all of the stress of two rounds of cancer and three surgeries and the loss of my brother in a little more than a year [...]

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