My father came down with thyroid cancer around 2005. He and Mom were living in Knoxville, Tennessee and I was living on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, by the beach. It was an 11 hour drive to get home. Dad had to have surgeries, eventually three. The third was the most serious. It was basically open …
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Gretchen and I got married last Saturday, April 6th. It was beautiful out -- a perfect day for a wedding. Our wedding was at 5 PM at our tiny Episcopalian church we attend. My father was my best man. Gretchen's best friend, Cindy, was her matron of honor. We had invited about 22 people to …
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I'm getting married this coming Saturday to the love of my life, Gretchen. We've been together for awhile now and have been living together since August 2011. We met online on a blogging site in 2004. We're a really good fit and we're both very excited about this. We're having a very small ceremony and …
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Last December 31st, I wrote an End of the Year Post where I wrote about highlights (and lowlights) of each month. I don't know that I'm going to do that this year, but I'm going to try to list some of the same types of things for 2012. In January, I was still recovering from …
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Hi. I feel like I've been out of touch for awhile now, so it's about time I'm writing. My Aunt Katherine died a week and a half ago, in Winston-Salem, NC. She was my favorite aunt. I hadn't seen her in years, since something like 1994. But we kept up with cards and phone calls …
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