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Catching up & catching my breath
It’s been an action-packed month for Chuck and me, and I feel like we haven’t had a chance to just chill in weeks (probably because we haven’t). Work has kept us super busy – converting a big website to Drupal is no casual undertaking – and it’s also grant time when the annual gathering of
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A final farewell, with much love
My aunt died this morning. She was 85. She was also the baby of her family and the last surviving sibling of my mother. It’s funny to talk about the baby of a family being 85. We called her Auntie A (her older sister was Auntie B), a tradition started by my oldest sister Mary
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Tripping down memory lane
I have been threatening to do this for a while, but have finally gotten around to it, so prepare yourselves for a bit of a tale. Many years ago – shockingly, it’s been 30 years! (where does the time go?!) – I treated myself to a trip to Europe as my college graduation present. I
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Lame excuses, in lovely list format
Okay, this is a whiny post about why I haven’t been posting to the blog more often. So let’s get right to it: I’ve been working A LOT Like I said, I’ve been working A LOT Just to clarify, working a lot leaves me with very little free time Chuck has also been working a
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Counting our blessings
Chuck had his six-month CT scan this past Monday at City of Hope. It’s been on the calendar, and we’ve been doing these follow-ups for a while. But in a pattern that has become familiar, in the week or two leading up to these appointments & tests both Chuck and I start to exhibit some,
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Thinking outside the box
It’s interesting times these days here in California. We have a new governor (well, he’s more like a gently used governor as he’s been governor once before) and he is doing what he said he’d do when he was campaigning: try to fix what’s broken in California, i.e. the budget process (among other things). His
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