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Have you ever unexpectedly encountered someone who sets your blood boiling instantly, raises the hair on the back of your neck which send big messages such as “Must  resist mouthing off” ”Run. Fast. Real Fast”? This happened to Jerry and I today when we were out running errands. Let me set the scene.

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Ok folks, let’s get up off our arrss’s and get back to work. It’s Monday after all and we have to sweat off those turkey pounds! So it’s back to the gym, or maybe just exercises in your desk chair for some of you. I’ll be running a few errands afterwards and then back to home [...]

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This Thanksgiving we feel there is much to be thankful for, so let’s start with off with good friends. Jill & Steve, along with their boys Patrick shown on right, and Alex assuming the King position at the end of the table, invited us over for a Thanksgiving feast. Not having made any real plans [...]

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“See, once you leave my duplex you follow the sidewalk, then it’s two steps down, then a flat area and another step. It was dark and I didn’t see that last step, that’s how I fell. I was pretty sure my knee was broken but seeings how it was 4:30am I knew it was going to be [...]

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It’s been over a month since Alex had such a frightening diagnosis followed by surgery for a brain bleed. Thankfully he is doing really well and that is such a blessing. Not only is this a great guy but just look at him, he’s handsome as all get out! Now that Alex can drive again [...]

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My girlfriend Karen and I got together for the 2nd time to make all occassion and holiday cards. She brought over a large variety of cards she had received and saved from her personal collection for me to scrap from! It was like shopping and not

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In all the years I’ve battled with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Sjogren’s Syndrome and Hypothyroidism there is one area I have yet to master: that of knowing when to quit. The reason I feel this is so hard to figure out is in part because each day and circumstance is so different than another. Since starting my Remicade [...]

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  When I first met Victor, my biological dad, my adoptive dad George was already deceased. My father George and I were very close and his death hit me hard. In some ways I felt I was betraying him by getting to know Victor. I hoped he would understand, and was pretty sure he had a big [...]

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My dear friend Carol celebrated her 50th “Do Over” birthday Saturday with a party given by her daughter Becca and husband Ray. Carol’s ”Do Over” theme came about because of an unforseen 50th birthday last year, spent in the hospital on Dilaudid, a wonderful

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Jerry and I have often commented in the 36 plus years we’ve been married how sad it is when we over-hear how a lot of couples talk to each. To us they sound hostile and rude, as if they have no respect what so ever for their spouse. They probably either don’t realize what they sound like or they don’t care anymore. [...]

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