Next month I turn 48 and it seems this stage of middle age brings with it a host of seemingly random, and at times rare, medical challenges. I am not referring to Perimenopause, though I am definitely in the later stages of that, and it probably deserves it’s own post. Last year, after we moved […]
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11 years ago I participated in a year-end blog meme for the first time called Rewind 2011, with fun and interesting questions designed to get writers and readers to reflect on our lives in 2011. I did so again the following year, with my Rewind 2012. After that I took six years off, starting up […]
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What a year your nineteenth has been! I had to double check with Dad, to make sure I got that right, and he confirmed that when you turn any given age, that is the year that you just completed. So many milestones and life transitions… In January you auditioned for and made Anastasia the musical […]
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Can you believe it? YOU ARE A TEENAGER! Also, you have teal hair and we live in Evanston now! In many ways you’ve been acting like a teenager for awhile and your age is finally catching up to your maturity level (most of the time), not to mention your vibe (which I think is awesome). […]
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“Bit by bit, putting it together…” ~ Stephen Sondheim On this day last year, June 17th, two weeks before my dad died, I spent about six hours at my parents’ new assisted living apartment putting together two matching cabinets. A few weeks before, they had downsized from a two bedroom independent living apartment, in which […]
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14 years have now come and gone since we last held you in our arms. 14 years since I carried you, you were born, and, soon afterwards, you died. And what a year this last one has been… I don’t think we’ve experienced a more difficult year since the one in which you were born […]
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