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Beer for the dying

At the beginning of Victoria's memorial service, George, her husband, gave a welcome speech. The first memory he told us about was of the last few weeks or months of her life, when every morning she would wake up and they would share a beer. Even on her last day, he wet her lips with [...]
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Victoria Bolles, RIP

Victoria from her obituary at the local paper. I mentioned a few days ago that I had two Memorial Services I wanted to go to yesterday afternoon. The one I actually went to was for Victoria Bolles, a friend from the West Gallery Quire. Victoria from her Facebook Page I didn't know Victoria that well [...]
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The Spare Room

This book is about aspects of taking care of a dying person that I mostly didn't do with Bonnie. The main character (Helen) lives near Melbourne, and has a close friend (Nicola) with cancer who lives in Sidney but has found a "clinic" in Melbourne that she believes will cure her cancer. So she moves [...]
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Crutches

I got a phone call at 8 AM Friday morning. I was nervous when I realized who it was -- it was the partner of one of the people I was playing the concert with yesterday. The last time I got a call from someone like that the day before the concert, it was the [...]
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Stories from the polls

I was so interested in writing about the results that I didn't tell you a couple of stories about the voters at the polls last week. One man came in and said he had a durable power of attorney for his father and did that mean he could vote for him. I said I didn't [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions

First, a couple of resolutions I'm not making: It's silly to claim you're all of a sudden going to start working on something you've been doing no work on for years. So I'm not going to resolve to learn a language or run a marathon. While there are lots of reasons why weighing 20 pounds [...]
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Woes of an Executrix: taxes

I swore I'd get the First and Final Accounting of Bonnie's estate done by today, so I've chained myself to the desk and I'm working on it. This means I don't have time to write anything new today, but it also means I've been reading a lot of the stuff I wrote when I was [...]
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What ereader device do I recommend

You would expect a one-a-day blog project like this to run into trouble in December, and this year is worse than most for that. In addition to the party (and attendant cleaning and cooking) and shopping and spending several days in Fall River, I also lost a day on Tuesday officiating at a special election [...]
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Bonnie’s keepsakes

In the course of cleaning out Bonnie's house, of course I threw out all kinds of stuff that would have been necessary if someone wanted to write a biography of her. Of course, if someone did want to do that they should have come and taken all the stuff off my hands, and they didn't. [...]
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Plans for the month

I have the major pieces of what I've been meaning to do on the websites done, although I'd still like to have better searching for pieces on SerpentPublications.org and better graphic design both places. But the big thing that happens in the near future is a lot of more "formal" entertaining than I do the [...]
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