Articles I LikeI’m kinda bushed after starting work today – topic for another post, but i’m finally back in the work world again – but I wanted to write a post about my Grampa Jim, my dad’s dad.
It kinda snuck up on me but when I flipped our calendar from July to August, I noticed that today, [...]
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After the rant I posted last week, I am surprised myself that I watched the MJ memorial service live from LA — not paying attention all the time, until the end when they played “We Are the World,” which was a very big deal when I was in high school when it was released.
Then I [...]
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March 3rd, 1983 is when my paternal grandmother, “Bee” (Beatrice) died. She was just shy of her 77th birthday. She’d suffered from a series of strokes in her 70s, and the last one put her in a coma from which she didn’t recover and she died within the week. I was home that day from [...]
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On Sunday I met a networking group friend that I met back in September; we’ve been slowly discovering we have so much in common. Sunday our discussion turned to some very deep stuff, Heaven, Hell, what happens to the soul after death, how neither of us really ever felt we “fit” in organized religion, yet [...]
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My grandmother Maradelle (Mardy, Grama Delle) died at 11.17pm 10 years ago today. I miss her terribly to this day. She had colon cancer, and during one of the chemo treatments the doctors left the chemo device inside her for too long and essentially fried her rectum and vagina, which led to other severe problems [...]
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Not for the faint of heart / squeamish, but it was a good read which had me laughing out loud at times. It was a sheer sense of curiosity that drew me to the book when I first saw it pop [...]
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