Hi. It's been awhile since I've actually written anything here, besides book reviews. Sorry. A lot has been going on. My mom moved from Chattanooga to Knoxville and we've been back and forth between the two cities a lot lately. In fact, we've seen my mom four of the past five weekends, which is more …
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Depression
I think I've been in a deep depression since Toby's death last month. And I think his death magnifies my father's death last year. I should be feeling good, living in a nice, new house in a nice, quiet, safe neighborhood, but all I can think about is how Toby isn't here and doesn't get …
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Toby is Gone
Yesterday, we had to have out beloved cat, Toby, put to sleep. We're devastated. He was only six! It was kidney failure. He had been showing symptoms for a few months and we'd taken him to the vet before and changed his diet as a result, but a couple of weeks ago, he became really …
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A Review of Fiasco
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gosh, there's so much to say about this book, I hardly know where to begin! I turned over so many pages to go back and see citations or quotes that I can't possibly list a fourth of them …
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I know, I know, I haven't actually blogged here in a long time. It's been mostly book reviews. But that's what you people like, right? So anyway, this week was the 14 week anniversary of my dad's death. And I finished up a grief support group I had been in for eight weeks. I'm not …
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