Monday, May 28, 2007
This response for the recipient of the gift made it all worth it! Hi Carole, I want to send you a wonderful thank you card, but I am so excited, I have to email you as well! I was overwhelmed, so to speak, when your package arrived. My daughter saw my tears and said: "But mommy, this is a good...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
My Salute
Photo taken: Sam Rayburn Lake, Texas June, 2006 I wrote a poem to go with the MIA bracelet I sent to the daughter of the man whose name I wore for about a decade. We have been in touch. Today I will post the poem, and tomorrow, her response. Ode to Cindy and “Herm” A Nurse’s Graduation Your father...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Boomerang!
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
The Mind is a Dangerous Place To Live
My newest of lost friends/found again sent this to me. I think it merits some publicity. How many times have you talked yourself out of something only to find out later, your original hunch or feeling about it was absolutely right? Or, you “racked your brain” over something for so long that your...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Chapstick Anyone?
This story is TOO good not to pass on. I wish I could lay claim to it, but if you've ever had kids and cats, I think you will get a kick out of this one. Happy Mother's Day! The photos ARE my own, however. The first picture is our son as a young lad, holding Tiggy (he is 23 now.) The last picture is...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The Memorial Service of Al
The Memorial was held yesterday with very few in attendance. His daughter, an ordained Lutheran minister, did a lovely job organizing the impromptu service. He had not wanted a funeral but these kind of things are for the living after all. We were the only "friends" of family attending. There were a...
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Meet Me At The Shore
I just got word from my best friend, Julie, that her father passed last night. He, too, had been afflicted with a neurological disease the past few years and from the sounds of her email, this event was expected. He had begun the process of dying last week. The family from Seattle and Chicago have...
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
Message from Michael LadRoar to Blogitville-
I have been in correspondence of late with one of our own bloggers, Michael LadRoar of Essex and/or Suffolk. One of my friends had sent me a series of photos of two women artists who collected driftwood and formed it together to make dashingly lifelike replicas of horses. I sent them on to him since...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
MIA Discovered?
This is why I don't believe in coincidence. There is no way these things I'm about to relate just stumbled together haphazardly. The last time I blogged in this journal, it was the 40th Anniversary of someone's death, a person who had impacted my life but whom I had never met. Since that time, I...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
40 Years Ago Today
I honor this man who gave his life in service to our country, 40 years ago today. I wore his MIA bracelet for many a year. My sister and her husband knew Col. Knapp and his family as they were stationed together, a couple of times, I think. When she sent me his bracelet, she said the Knapps had just...
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