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Timeline: Relapse & Decline
My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the...
Timeline: Diagnosis #SOL26
My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the...
Good Teaching Day #SOL26
I had a very good teaching day yesterday. First, it started with this gem I received from a student: As we are more than halfway into the class, I would like to tell you that I...
You Take the Good, You Take the Bad , You Take Them Both and There you Have…#SOL26
Today is the last day of the Slice of Life challenge, and I obviously did not post every day of the challenge. In fact, my last post was twenty-one days (three weeks!) ago....
More Birthday Fun #SOL26
And the week of birthdays continue! Today is my friend's Sam's birthday, and she texted me this morning to ask if I still wanted to go to dinner to which I, of course, said yes....
Lost #SOL26
My daughter turned 27 today. I feel like every year on her birthday or Mother's Day, my daughter likes to remind me that I have a child so will never stop being a parent. This...
Never Satisfied #SOL26
I have a problem. It's happened once or twice before that I redo my website--actually, have someone redo my website, let's be real--and then, I see a really cute layout somewhere...
A real slice of my life #SOL26
I was feeling overwhelmed (again!) by this challenge, even though I do enjoy it. I even thought about skipping today's post, but then I did some morning pages-type writing and...
Day 6 #SOL26
Have I already hit the wall? I might have. But the wall isn't the challenge itself, just that I'm tired of being on the computer. I'm going to a seminar so will miss class on...