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Precarious

Friday, February 3, 2012

Here we are for the past week +.  I am the giraffe/elephant.  Rye is the bear.  I am exhausted.
After a good long stretch of stability, we have hit a bump in the road.  This past week Rye morphed into a person I have not seem in a very long time with symptoms I have not [...]

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Dr. Drew Show: Tics in Teen Girls Caused By Conversion Disorder?

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Did you see the Dr. Drew show yesterday?  It was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long time.  Don and I were flipping around channels and somehow landed on this show and we could not stop watching it once we started.  It was incredible.  The show was about 12 teen [...]

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This and That

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Rye is skiing today and Don is catching up on sleep so I have a chance to sit and write and think.  Ahhhh.  I’m feeling myself exhale.  Lovely.  Rye’s been sick with a chest cold the past few days so I have not had much time to myself and it’s nice now to have a [...]

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Arthritis

Friday, January 6, 2012

Or, ‘the thritis’ as Don and I call it.  One of my new challenges as we begin 2012 is that I’m getting arthritis.  Or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.   It started late last year and it seems to be a steady part of my life now.  And it’s making me [...]

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So Long, 2011!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

[photo credit: Peter Jukes]
Wow.  New Year’s kind of snuck up on me this year.  We’ve been in a vacation coma of eating junk food and watching movies for over a week now and it just dawned on me yesterday that today is New Year’s Eve.   We don’t have any big plans for the evening.  I [...]

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Christmas Love

Saturday, December 24, 2011

I look at our pictures from Christmas last year and I can’t believe how much Rye has changed.   Last Christmas he was shorter than both Don and I.  And he looked young.  Like a kid.  This Christmas, he is 6′2″.  Without shoes on.  He looks like a teen.   This Christmas he towers over me and [...]

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Sick

Thursday, December 22, 2011

photo credit: The Vintage
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I have been sick for the past week.  I have a virus that I just cannot shake and now Don has it too.  It started in my head as a cold, moved to what felt like a sinus infection until I bought a Neti pot and really started flushing out my sinuses [...]

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Hello Weekend

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Well, things are back to normal at the homestead.   Rye had a good rest of the week, as did the rest of us.  Don and I went to a Christmas party last night and it was the first time in I can’t even remember when I dressed up in a skirt, etc.  It was a [...]

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Deep Psychological Assistance

Thursday, December 1, 2011

First of all, let me preface this post by saying that if you landed here via Google search and are looking for real psychological assistance, this is not the post for you.  This is simply an anecdote about my life.  Sorry.
With that said…here goes.
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Growing up the child of a mental health professional (and I’m [...]

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Thanksgiving Weekend

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

We had a very nice Thanksgiving weekend here.  It was very low key as it was just Rye, Don and I and it was very relaxed.  We made a big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving and then the next day as our weekend outing we went on a boat ride, did some sight seeing, went out [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 24, 2011
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