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Insurance Doesn’t Mean Free #30DaysofThanks
Some weeks, it seems like Friday just can’t get here quickly enough. The fourth quarter of any year is busy, but 2013 is proving to be crazier than any other year since I started in insurance thirteen...
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Still the One #30DaysofThanks
Now that our kids are older, Dave and I do more as a couple. Date nights were harder to pull off when we had to find babysitters. Plus, our weekdays were so long that it hardly seemed right to leave...
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People meat #30DaysofThanks
When Isabel was little, she and I would spend time each weekend with my grandparents. They had two dogs, Timmy and Cho Cho San, and my grandmother would often mix bits of meat into their dog food....
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May the Fierce Be With You #30DaysofThanks
Last night, after a great night spent with some wonderful friends, I got home and had a hard time settling down. I was messing around with my iPad much later than I should have been, and I’m paying...
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Sharpening My Pencils #30DayofThanks @arthouse
Last year, I was introduced to The Sketchbook Project by a Facebook friend. It’s an ongoing art project based out of the Brooklyn Library. You place your order and soon, you receive a blank...
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Litany Against Fear #30DaysofThanks
There have been some dark days for us this year. When Dave first got sick in May, and we took him to the ER, little did we know that we were on a path that would include multiple scans, oncologist...
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Helping Hands #30DaysofThanks
Today, I’m grateful for the opportunities that I have through my job, to be able to help others. While it’s not something that I grew up wanting to be, as an insurance broker, I am in a unique...
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Of Books, Friends and Troubling News #30DaysofThanks
Tonight was Book Club night. My mother joined a book club several years ago, made up of people in her neighborhood. Over the years, any book she was reading for book club was something that I’d read...
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Selling Ice To Phoenicians #30DaysofThanks
Today, between enrollment meetings, we took our client to lunch. Her office is in the heart of downtown, right on the light rail line. We walked around the corner to a plaza where there are several...
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I would be proud to partake of your PE-can Piiiieee #30DaysofThanks
Last week, Dave did his octreotide scans, per the liver specialist’s request. He was to be injected with Octreotide, a “radiolabeled” drug that attaches to cancer cells. They were going to do scans...
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Trying to Be Thankful #30DaysofThanks
It’s been a heck of a month…heck of a year, come to think of it. It’s been harder this year to get my posts done for #30DaysOfThanks. Should be easier; but, I find myself up and down. Today is a day...
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How I’m Feeling At the Beginning of the End #reverb13 Day 1
It’s early. For the past several days, I’ve been catching up on the sleep that I don’t get during the work week. This morning, though, vivid dreams and rumblings in my bowels woke me up before...
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Malnourished #reverb13 Day 2
It’s been a year of self-preservation. I bury myself in mindless puzzles, flip through magazines, and watch banal sitcoms…my attention span too fragmented to commit to anything more satisfying. I...
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Trolling Around The Facebook Tree #DEverb
My friend, B, or GëëkinHard, is a friend made through Reverb10. In 2011, when the original Reverb creators pulled the plug at the eleventh hour, B set up and launched a replacement, keeping the spirit...
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Listen #reverb13
<br / Today, I want to share with you a life-changing practice I discovered with the help of Rachael Maddox during her gorgeous Do It Meaningfully challenge. Each day for 31 days, I sat quietly for...
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Losing Ourselves #reverb13
Day Four: What have you lost this year? What are you grieving? This gave me pause. When I signed up for Reverb, my intention was not to focus so much on cancer or how it has directly affected our...
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Back to the Drawing Board #reverb13
Challenge accepted. Prompt for December 5: Challenge | Did you take on a new challenge in 2013? What was it? Are there challenges you deliberately avoided? What do you want to do to challenge yourself...
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Don’t Light That In Here! #Reverb13 Day 6
#Reverb13 | Day 6 Cheers to another year older. Prompt for December 6: Blowing out the candles | You’re another year older! How did you celebrate the passage of another year? Did it turn out the way...
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The Skin I’m In. #Reverb13 Day 7
Day 7: Reveal your self(ie) Please post your favorite picture of yourself from this year, selfie or otherwise. I’m not a “picture” person. Thanks to iPhones and the like, there are more photos of me...
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Blank Pages to Fill #reverb13 Day 8
Day 8: What went right This year saw me take some steps toward my eventual goal of doing some illustration. Last year, I joined The Sketchbook Project and finished my first submission just under the...
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