Tag: life
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Orphaned
On September 11, 2025, just before dinner time, I became an orphan at 45 years old. My mother passed away in 2006 after fighting through kidney failure and multiple heart attacks for years and a week ago, as I’m writing this, my father passed away after a short battle with multi-systems cancer. And try as…
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The Outdoors
A couple of weeks ago, I helped feed the local BSM group. Due to construction at the university, we were moved to a new location this year which placed us on a patio area adjacent to one of the courtyards on campus. As we served the students, memories of my time at college flooded my…
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Coming This Fall
As we enter the fall season, while I won’t be partaking in the Pumpkin Spice nastiness, I am shifting my life a bit to start a new day. I’ve taken a job that will require me to work at night, which honestly is my preferred time to be awake anyway. I worked nights for a…
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Trying Again…Again – Death
I have watched people die. As an EMT, I’ve been in the presence of a body separated from its soul as we fought to reunite the two. As a child and grandchild, I’ve sat beside a loved one as they’ve taken their final breath. Each event is as traumatic and life altering as the next.…
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Hindsight
Haunted By My Past I wasn’t even 18 when I graduated high school, my birthday falling in the summer after that day. On that day, though, I was already making decisions that would dictate the direction of my life. Circumstances at home had forced my hand, guilting me into choosing the path that was expected…
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Trying Again…Again
As Sunday comes to a close and the week resets into Monday, I find myself looking at the beginning of yet another temporal causality loop where the motions of a week start over and my only hope for survival is to pick the better path this tine around. Unfortunately, Data isn’t here to stack the…
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Back to Life, Back to Reality
School has kicked back off in our world, bringing with it the ability to get back to enjoying the things that make me, me. Having children who are neuro-spicy means that my summer is filled with doing everything in my power to make sure they don’t do something to hurt themselves or someone else because…
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Quote of the Month – March 2025
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. Brene Brown When I decided to pick a quote for each month, I didn’t actually intend to then write a post about it, but life happens, and things change. I picked this quote originally as a flagship quote…
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