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World AIDS Day

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Today is World AIDS Day, commemorating the 34 million living people with AIDS, and the nearly 30 million who have died. The numbers are so big they’re hard to take in. But for me, as for so very many others … Read more…

When a Dog Dies

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Today our old doggie died. Blackie was the last one of the pets that grew up with my “second family” of children, a golden retriever/black lab cross. As the final animal survivor of that era, he outlived Mia, a tiny … Read more…

Cleaning House

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Recently I helped my daughter clean up the bedroom occupied by my 8 and 11-year-old grandsons.  I considered donning tyvek overalls and putting Vicks on my upper lip, as they do in the forensic shows on television, but when I got there it really wasn’t too bad.  Smelled a bit of small boy feet, but mainly there were layers upon layers of stuff, wall to wall.  As we worked, we joked that we felt like archeologists, unearthing layers of a civilization.

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Mother’s Day Reflections

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Being a mother is a pretty complicated undertaking, no matter who you are or how you do it. I woke up this morning thinking about it, and wondering how I could possibly write anything meaningful on the subject in only a few paragraphs. When I reflect on my life as a mother, and the lives of mothers everywhere, my mind is filled with a million different thoughts. But it’s an important subject, certainly the center of my life, so I’m going to give it a shot.

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