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Sean started singing that song from Hamilton the musical when I told them about a dream I had earlier this week. I woke up to go to the bathroom in the early morning (about 3:00 a.m.) on Monday, as I often do, and immediately remembered that my dad, who seemed to be alive and well, […]

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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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15 years ago today, on April 10, 2007, I began blogging. Holy cow! That feels like a big milestone. On past blogoversaries I have shared things that I have learned from blogging and ten years ago, since my blogoversary fell on the second Tuesday of April, I chose “Blogoversaries” to be the Time Warp topic for that month. Nine Years ago, I […]

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Today was our day. At least, it was our day since I was in high school, in the early 1990’s. It began with you waking me up early on an April 1st, that happened to fall on a weekday, when we were hosting my youth group for a Lenten Breakfast/Bible Study/Faith Sharing at our home, […]

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Every morning when my dad’s alarm went off on his iPhone, he was awakened by The Rolling Stones singing one of his all time favorite songs, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” I grew up loving that song and the movie The Big Chill (which has the most incredible soundtrack), because Dad introduced me […]

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When my mom and dad had their first child, my older sister Meg, in July 1970, my maternal grandparents offered to gift them a framed fine art print of their choice, in lieu of sending a bouquet of flowers, to celebrate the occasion of the birth of their first grandchild. My parents chose an Andrew […]

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