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Life Lessons

January 29, 2010

When you go through a tragedy, there’s a steep learning curve. Like life goes on, even after the worst thing imaginable has happened. A person disappears and everyone gets up the next day and goes to work, or whatever and you do, too, even if its your husband who died. When you think about it, [...]

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Talked to an Angel

January 7, 2010

I’ve often said that this experience has brought so many nice people into our lives. So many kind people have shown interest in our family. It’s been somewhat overwhelming. If you’ve been following then you know that I posted a couple of videos on the site a couple of days ago. In one of them, [...]

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Confession…

December 10, 2009

Today, three months and ten days after George’s accident, is the first day we have been able to get Lily smoothly off to school. I got up early (5:30), so that helped. The first day I haven’t been sick with exhaustion in the morning. I think Lily appreciated it. I made cinnamon rolls, her favorite. [...]

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Old Habits Die Hard

November 7, 2009

Waiting up. Eating late at night. Watching obscure old Westerns. There’s lots of stuff I’m not doing these days, now that my partner in crime has moved on. George and I had a strange lifestyle, driven by his crazy schedule, eclectic tastes, and our desire to spend lots of time together. Saturday nights are hard, [...]

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What the Doctor Told Me

October 12, 2009

The notebook I wrote the note to George in came in very handy, it ended up being the place that I wrote everything I was told about George’s condition for the next two weeks. They were a long two weeks. After sitting in the hospital waiting room for several hours and asking repeatedly to see [...]

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