Per David, the song is this: Row, row, row your boat Gently down the street Muhmuhmuhmuhmuh, Life is but a dream.

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I’m tired.  Too tired to play with C&D, too tired to blog, too tired even to watch TV on mute. Not quite ready to fall asleep, earlier this evening I pulled out my new knitting needles and yarn.  Halfway through the evening’s second knit row, Carmen found me in the bed and began stroking the [...]

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I realized yesterday how grateful I was to not have to wear headgear when I had braces (I felt and heard everything transmitted through the metal halo and directly to my skull), and that I probably wouldn’t like playing in the NFL, either (those helmets). Best part, though:  after the MRI and cerebral angiogram (both [...]

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Gamma Knife surgery tomorrow at Memorial Hermann to get the remaining bit of AVM.  Stories (and maybe even pictures) after. 

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” “I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh [...]

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The sun is down by 6, and we park across the gate.  We have the playground all to ourselves. It’s been this way for weeks, with occasional exceptions, like when someone had tennis lessons and a sibling was bored.  For a while some sort of playgroup met on Wednesdays, but now they are gone by [...]

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Nobody’s birthday: Last night I sat typing in the car, parked in the garage. I had WiFi from the house and tea in the center console (who needs Internet cafes?) Upstairs Matt and the Dynamic Duo played and tidied up the kitchen. They baked a small cake, just for fun, and after David dug around [...]

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