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    “You are not Trayvon Martin”

        I just read a great article by William Saletan at Slate… so great, that I had to get up out of bed (I was reading it on my iPad), and…

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    More Perfect.

                A week ago, I had surgery to implant a permacath into my chest. A surgeon made a tiny incision and carefully inserted it into my jugular…

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    Some Saturday Stuff- July 13th.

    Princess Sophia at her surprise fifth birthday barbecue last Saturday, July 6th.     Good Saturday to you! Last Saturday, we celebrated my neiece Sophia’s birthday. She was surprised and very happy.…

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    WTH?!?

        Good Lord. Suspected Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a dang fan club. From The Gothamist:   As Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived at court today, about a…

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    A healthy baby?

    My pregnant (with Z) belly, about five and a half months along.     Great post by Nalida Besson from Disabled Children Human Rights:   When I was pregnant with my third…

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    Evangelical adoption nightmares.

        Thanks to all the medical stuff going on, I haven’t been blogging so much. I have been reading a whole lot, though (which is more fun anyway). I came across…

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    Ultra Real Art

    Joe passes on these links to amazingly realistic works of art done in oil and some even in pencil.   From NY Art Beat:   Yigal Ozeri salutes his country of origin…

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    Humph.

    Don’t let the smile fool you. It was probably the lingering drugs getting me giddy.     On Monday, I went back to St. Francis for surgical implantation of a permacath for…

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    Some Saturday Stuff- July 6th

    Cousin hugs!     Good Saturday morning! I hope you’re enjoying this long holiday weekend. Despite my mother’s illness, I have. Yesterday, Zoe and I had lunch with my stepmom, Kathy, and…

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    On the 4th.

    Painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861, oil on paper, “Our Banner in the Sky”, H/T: http://www.urbancure.org/     My friend Aja sent me an email that had the picture above in there. After…