Tag: mom
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Route 66, Dreams, and Second Breakfast – Thoughts from September 19, 2024
My last morning in the Roswell hotel began with a dream. I was walking up a cluttered stairwell with my mom and a cousin of ours. The cousin and I were kids. My mom was younger and could walk up and down the stairs easily. This was not the reality for my mom, especially in…
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Birth, Falling, and Our Stories – Thoughts from April 27, 2024
The biggest thing that happened today is the birth of our nephew and his wife’s baby boy. I’m really hoping I can reword that first sentence when I edit this Thoughts paper. Now that I’ve mentioned wanting to edit it, I’ll have to leave it as it is so you can see what I’m talking…
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Thinking About Quest – Thoughts from July 16, 2023
I’ve become the guy who brings down the room by talking about Quest going blind. I can’t really talk about anything else because it’s the only thing on my mind. She just turned thirteen years old and I don’t know if she’s going to make it to fourteen. I tell people her age and they…
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American Disfunctional Family – Thoughts from June 25 and 30, 2023
June 25, 2023 I’ve been back to work for two days now. I’m still feeling tired, itchy, puffy, and not quite back to normal. The one thing I didn’t miss while on vacation was my difficulty breathing at home. In bed, my office, and while watching TV, I’m surrounded by fur in the form of…
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Raining Weirdness – Thoughts from October 17 – 23, 2022
October 17, 2022 They rejected my submission about my mom’s last days. It was a bit atheistic so I’ll try my traumas from childhood paper. If they don’t like that, maybe they just don’t like my style. In the time between starting this paragraph and now, I submitted the grade school traumas with a new…
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Women and Men Walking – Thoughts from October 16, 2022
I was driving into work on the freeway and I saw a large white truck with a flag sticking up in the back of it. From a history of seeing flags sticking up in the back of trucks, I know they write nothing pleasant or encouraging on the flags. Sure enough, they inscribed the words…
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Space Alien – Thoughts from May 3 and 4, 2033
May 3, 2022 I’m listening to a book that is an oral history of The Next Generation and subsequent Star Trek shows. They talked about Deep Space 9 which I never watched. Hearing a description of the show, I don’t think I’ll ever watch it. They talked about spirituality being a part of it, which…
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Mom’s Final Days – Thoughts from November 20, 2013
(Future note: This was written about my mom’s final days. Her last day alive was on November 20, 2013, so that is the date of this Thoughts paper. Despite the sad subject, there were amusing and surreal happenings going on.) My mom had multiple sclerosis for many years. Near the end of her life, she…
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Working with Anxiety – Thoughts from October 19, 2004
Well, it’s been a while, but I’m back. Back in time, back to the Assessor’s office, and back to being clueless about what I’m doing with my life. Back to being scheduled every minute of the day, and back to that anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach for much of the day. Most…
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I’m Working on It – Thoughts from May 11 and 19, 2004
May 11, 2004 We had my mom over for Mother’s Day on, strangely enough, Mother’s Day this weekend. Our newly finished kitchen can be used to make shrimp, etc. We also had a Mother’s Day celebration at Patti’s mom’s house. I nerded it up with “the boys” most of the time. We were looking at…
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