Category: Life 2005
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Channeling Mom
My mother died about six weeks ago. I thought in the months after her death that I would be pretty out of kilter. I expected to be a lot more grieved than I actually am. I thought I would spend hours crying over her loss, because I did love her and still feel bonded to […]
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Three Years of Blogging
Time flies when you are having fun! Today I start year four of my blogging adventure. This means that it is time for a metablogging entry again. In blog time, I am now a great grandfather. I would bet that less than one percent of blogs have lasted three years. One of the few that […]
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Bah! Humbug!
I hope none of my relatives is reading this. Well, okay, I do not mind if my immediate family is reading this. I make this assumption with every blog entry, even though I suspect only one or two of them bother to check out this blog on even a semi regular basis. I do not […]
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Yin without Yang
Clearly, it is going to take a while to process all my feelings about my mother’s death. For now, it seems surreal. Even when she and my father lived 600 miles away, even when I did not see them for a year or two, still they were always in my present. Both were an easy […]
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Addicted to Cute
Some creatures are just obscenely cute. They can give the unwary a heart attack at a hundred paces. Such is the case with Tai Shan, the four-month-old baby panda unveiled for public observation for the first time yesterday here in Washington, D.C. Reputedly, it costs ten million dollars a year to host their parents, Mei […]
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Eulogy for my mother
My mother’s memorial mass is tomorrow. I prepared the following eulogy when my turn comes to say something after the mass. This is a different perspective of my mother suitable for consumption by our immediate family. Soon hopefully I will be focusing on other things again. For those of you who are wondering I find […]
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85 Years and 8 Months
My mother died this morning at 7:42 a.m. She died at Renaissance Gardens, a nursing home at Riderwood, a retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland. While she died peacefully, her condition (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) made her last few months quite unpleasant. While we are of course grieved to have her gone from this life, we […]
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Rocky Mountain High
I am sitting in my room at a Hampton Inn in Helena, Montana. Helena is not your typical destination for either business or pleasure, particularly at the end of October. Perhaps this is because Helena (like most of Montana) can be a challenge to even get to, since it seems too remote from most of […]
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No time for reflection
Life is keeping me very busy this week. My team is in town. That means long days in a conference room. It also means that my routine is disrupted. I have almost no time to read the news, or pick up a book, or even surf the web. Even finding time to take a shower […]
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