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I have lightened my load. I went from, basically, this:       to this:       and in the process, lost all this:   ...

I am thankful for:   A happy ending yesterday at work:   a severely autistic nonverbal client wandered off Monday afternoon and stay...

Tonight, I am working on creating a new blog - just setting it up and figuring out what theme I want to use and how I want the format to lo...

Four years ago, this: And today, this:   My baby is four years old! What the Doc McStuffins ?? I can hardly believe it.   Be...

Every day there are moments, small things really, that are possible to miss if you are not paying attention. There are Big Things Happenin...

The Pew Research Center released a new study today on student loan debt, which has mushroomed in the past five years. he Pew Research analy...

After a long couple of weeks during which the family has experienced more heartache and stress and back and forth from hospital to convalesc...

Testing to see if I can add photos from my iPhone using BlogPress. These are some of my favorite shots from the summer of 2012: Viva, of the...

Sweet Dub's dad has been moved to an extremely and utterly depressing convalescent home to, I suppose, convalesce. However, he is still ...

  Are you familiar with this book? Felix stays up late and eats way too many chocolate Blimpies and in the morning he doesn't fe...

About a million years ago, when I first started dating Sweet Dub, I had just taken what would turn out to be the worst job I have ever had...

Nothing from Google seems to want to load this evening. I had a whole photo post I was planning, and now:  zip. Hmf. Is it time to ditch Bl...

I have posted to my blog via email a couple of times in recent weeks (no, really, it's true), and then today was looking at my blog and ...

It’s summer, and that means it will be hot. If it’s hot, there will be swimming. If there’s swimming, hair gets wet. If hair...

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always try to do that, but the really great make you feel that ...

In my spare time (of which, like many people, I have far too little) I have been rethinking what I want to do with this blog. Or more specif...

I am currently in a sleep pattern in which I crash at about 9 PM, wake up at 2:20 AM, stay up with my monkey mind jumping all over the place...

I am having angst. It is career-related angst, and it is not a pretty thing. It is a bright red, heavy, sharp-horned little creature yanki...

When I was job hunting this fall, I applied for a couple of positions, and I got an offer at the first one I interviewed at before I even in...

Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images I love this picture. It makes me want to jump for joy! What leaps are you taking toda...