Riding The Wave – Multiple Myeloma

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”  – Mary Engelbreit What a truly lovely week I have had. Yesterday, my father in law sent me this photo of a Begonia. I got a cutting of this lovely house Begonia from my friend Paula, […]

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“Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs.  They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.”  – Norman Strung Kip and I survived the Vet visit. Great clinic, great recommendation, adorable puppies and dogs. A hopping place for a Sunny […]

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“When you live your life with an appreciation of coinci-dences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.” – William James Wow! What a couple of weeks I have had with all manner of things in life and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon! 0

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“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” – Ronald Reagan I don’t know if this happens to all of you, but it happens to me – every fall. When I’m out and about seeing all the school supplies overstocked […]

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“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” – Giotto di Bondone What a GREAT SURPRISE! My next door neighbors from our home in Olney (Brookeville, MD) were visiting the west coast and on their way back from Tahoe to San Francisco to catch a redeye they stopped […]

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  “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.”  – Scott Adams I’ve been busy with a myriad of things of late and enjoying myself as well as feeling a tad overwhelmed. My new logo has been designed, courtesy of my former boss, dear friend, and Godfather to my […]

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Last night…. before it was really dark, we had quite a show in our backyard!  We have known for some time we have owls in the BIG Valley Oak Trees in the undeveloped lot behind our house. We can hear them (screeching) and once in a while we see something really BIG flying about at […]

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“The thing that most forget while dreamily looking off into the horizon for the ship of their dreams is that such ships never sail in, but are actually built beneath their very feet.” – Notes from the Universe (Mike Dooley)  Boy sometimes I have just a flurry of MM activity to write about and then, […]

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“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” – Flora Whittmore I haven’t had much to espouse about on the MM front, though that is not to say that a lot doesn’t continue to happen – good and bad. I enjoyed Sean Murray’s recent posting at The Beacon. Just to validate […]

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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”  – Anthony Brandt What a lovely family day we had on our first ever trip to Napa. It was a late start, but we enjoyed what little time we had there. We had lunch at Mustard’s Grill. Which grows almost all it’s […]

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A rose can say “I love you”, orchids can enthrall, but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all. ~Author Unknown It’s the 4th of July holiday weekend here in the States. Our Independence Day celebration around the country. Fireworks, American Flags, barbecues, family gatherings, children in awe and animals hiding […]

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“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley Some days I find myself feeling a bit lost and lazy. Lord knows I have plenty that needs to get done around here but I don’t much feel like […]

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“The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.” – Unknown I very recently learned a friend that I don’t talk to often has cancer. She has known a long time and told no one in her family. She is now undergoing chemo and had to tell some of her family. She […]

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  “Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad” – Proverb I wasn’t planning on writing about my father this Father’s Day as I have written about him on and off through my blog. But dear Hugh, a fellow MM Warrior, wrote and asked me if I […]

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“Home was always where WE were.” – Lori Puente As a “military brat”, this was how it was for us. We moved around, often in base housing. It was simply the way it was for us, we knew no different. 1

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    “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” – Thomas Jefferson 1

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“The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that […]

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“Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.” My father’s older sister, my Aunt June. She will turn 80 this month. While I was there we “walked the property”. She wanted to show me the areas where the gas/oil folks were meandering around […]

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      “Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!”  ~Don A. Dillman 1

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