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The Next Step – Will You Join Us?
The cover is finished, the book is ready. Now I need your support. I’m looking for your help getting this book out to people facing Alzheimer’s. I want to bring them support and encouragement, but I can’t do it alone. If you are long time followers and know who I am and what I am […]
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Cover Vote
The time has arrived. After much work (big thanks to my talented brother Justin who designed the covers and many more) and much agonizing, I must now decide what cover will go with my book The Sea is Wide: A Memoir of Caregiving. It will be a tough choice. In the end I must weigh […]
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Troubling to Think
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. The full quotation is “Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” I do […]
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Joyce Kilmer, Poets
I really like this poem by Joyce Kilmer, titled “Poets.” Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe that perish with our breath Out of our lips that have […]
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Rundy Purdy on Exercise
I invented this quote to explain the reasons for going on a bike ride in subzero (fahrenheit) tempratures. The picture is a self-portrait I took a few years ago on just such an excursion. Remember, “Stop whining and go, because Genghis Khan didn’t conquer the world by skipping bike rides when it was too cold.”