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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

If it doesn’t have fireworks or a six-pack of Coors, is it REALLY a redneck celebration?

*I’ve had the mixed blessing of knowing a lot of women who every day inspire those around them to be more than you thought you could. Through pain and loss of unimaginable magnitude, they are able to love fiercely and live with laughter in their lives.  I met one of these tremendous people for the [...]

Random is how I roll

Ok, my kid?  Reoccuring pink eye.  Third time in two months. We’ve done the eye drops, I stripped her bed and pillows, I wash her hands and face until the flesh threatens to fall off her bones. It keeps coming back.  I fear we may actually have to go IN to the doctor’s office and [...]

When you don’t have anything important to say: Wordle

Nope, I didn’t just make that up.  It’s actually a website where you put in your blog URL and it gives you this: Thanks to the Bloggess for infecting my brain with her kind of fun.

It’s what I do

Yesterday I posted about Blissdom and how it made me to feel to be a part of the blogging community. But before I was a part of THAT community, I was a reluctant part of another…the community of cancer families. So much of my blogging has been about having a child with cancer.  It’s who [...]

I’m with the band

Picture you’re a Smurf…you’re short, you’re blue and you wear a funky little white hat…and people look at you a wee bit cock-eyed and crazy when you tell them you’re a smurf. You feel like a lone little Smurf in the world. You’ve heard of whole communes of the great blue ones, you’ve even had [...]