We chose to spend Christmas Day at home this year like we have since 2004, when I was too hugely pregnant to travel safely and comfortably.  Once the babies were born it wasn’t any easier; they hated the car and would cry until we scooped them out at our destination.  Post-AVM, now I’m the one [...]

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Oh, Joyce and Matt and babes,
They had a ‘Ru packed full.
They’d filled it up with camping stuff
Then unpacked it all again.
‘Cause when you’re well, you’re well,
And when you’re gone, you’re gone.
But ’till I see the surgeon Wednesday
I’m neither well nor gone.
~
I warned several of you that we would [...]

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I am already on my fifth movie of the day.  Some of them have been short, of course.
Yesterday I maybe did too much; in between lying around and watching movies I cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, and tried to catch up on paperwork.  Overnight my fever returned with a vengeance, to 102*F.  This morning I resolved [...]

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After lying low, zoning out on old movies, and napping all day, I thought I had the worst of the Carmen flu licked.
Until a little while ago.
It’s awfully hard to get a good night’s sleep when you’re coughing your throat raw.  It’s even harder when your fever, just about gone all day, is back to [...]

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A few weeks ago, right before bed, I logged into Facebook to browse through a friend’s photos.
I really don’t like using Facebook (for a variety of reasons that I won’t discuss here), but friends sometimes post their photos in their Facebook account and in order for me to view them I, too, must hold a [...]

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It was cool and windy, but still plenty warm enough for a trip to the beach.  We had been working too hard for too long, and needed to get away from the city, if just for a morning.
We brought the things we needed:  breakfast tacos, tractors, water, buckets, and a couple of gardening trowels.
Almost [...]

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1)  The suburbs can be scary:  Recently a couple of Cinco Ranch high school students wrote a satirical op-ed piece about students and families from other high schools using Cinco Ranch-area chain restaurants as hang-outs.  This past Friday the students from Cinco Ranch and the other area high schools apparently used Facebook to stage a [...]

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