Archive for the 'Family' Category
The little sister.
In every family, there are roles that each person plays. Because I am the youngest of three by quite a few years, I slipped easily into the role of “the baby”.
Not much was expected of me as far as chores around the house, not like my sister and brother years before. Some of this was [...]
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Show and Tell: Roots
“You know, if we traveled up I-35 and took US-18 all the way to Madison, we could stop in Rudd…” I offered up that morning as we looked over the map in our hotel room near Des Moines, where we had stopped the night before. Our ultimate destination was my brother’s house for a [...]
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Aunthood, revisited.
It’s different this time. Last time, I was in my last weeks of college when my sister’s daughter was born. Before that, I was beginning my senior year of high school when my sister’s son was born. Now I am married and settled down in a house and now my brother’s daughters were born Monday [...]
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Looking at the calendar.
Duncan Cross presents the second “Patients for a Moment” blog carnival today.
From now until the middle of August, I only have one full week of work. It all starts with the long holiday weekend followed by a trek back to Wisconsin to see my family and some friends.
A week after I return, BlogHer ‘09 and a [...]
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After struggling to import all of our photos into iPhoto ‘09, I finally settled down to exploring Faces on Friday. And I’ve hardly stopped except for meals, exercise, that Bruce Springsteen concert (which I may or may not get around to writing about), and some sleep.
It’s interesting to how the algorithms of the program match [...]
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Oh yeah. It’s March.
Since I last posted, life has been rather hectic and frustrating…
February 27, part 1: Learned that a former co-worker had a stroke two days earlier. Things are still fairly serious for the 28-year-old (!?!), but she should have a decent recovery, though some motor skills may not be fully regained.
February 27, part 2: Later that [...]
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Washing the Newsprint off.
I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it. I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in my adult life, except for a brief trial with the Boulder Daily Camera.
Newspapers were a part of my everyday life from a young age, thanks to my mother’s thirst for reading and politics. I read first for the comics, then [...]
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2008 in Review.
January found me back at my previous place of employment after a three-month hiatus. And I’m still there, through two rounds of layoffs and a whole lot of stress.
February and March found me struggling with tooth #19.
April was the most eventful of months, with my highest A1C yet and a lovely new piece of [...]
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Out of the blue.
“I thought if you weren’t too busy at work this afternoon, you’d like to hear the roosters crowing in our yard.”
That’s not exactly what my mom said when I called panicked after seeing a missed call from my parents’ cell phone yesterday, but you get the picture.
It was awfully nice to get a phone [...]
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For the new Mr. and Mrs. B
“There’s not much time. It won’t be in view much longer.”
“We should go see it. Just us…and what about the two of you?”
Quickly walking up the path, all four of us made our way up the steps. J and I saw it first with ease, but by the time Greg and D were able to [...]
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