Tag Archives: Mom

My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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Deaths

Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it.  The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]
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Conflation (poem)

Conflation I found home far from my birthplace, but at night my dreams remind me: I see them, Mom and Dad and their home at one with the landscape I now call my own and in daylight reality I know that my dream is more true than the maps which show the distance between my home, their home. Dreams evaporate the miles and place [...]
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We are all, or none

Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove "gender identity" and "gender expression" from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance -- in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won't throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I'm not alone.
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Blinks

On Facebook, my friend David has been thinking about blinks.  He posted a brief little meditation about it a few days ago, & this morning a wonderful short poem called “Blinking” that I wish I could post here but I haven’t asked him so I won’t.  But his poem led me to dig [...]
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Didn’t notice when I took it….

Me, today First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At lunchtime I decided to take a brief walk to take pics of the snow for [...]
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How it feels

Today’s Start Walking blog: Tuesday, 11 July 2006: How it feels One thing I’ve noticed more & more lately is how good it feels now to walk. Even going up hills, as I did this morning on my bus stop walk: I remember how just last year, when my car at the time was out of [...]
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Sunflowers for my mother

Mom, these are some of the sunflowers Mark’s work sent for Dad, because they were your favorite flower. I was always lousy at remembering Mother’s Day or your birthday early enough to get a card to you. But Mom, today I remember & love you. I’m taking good care of myself. [...]
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Start Walking: Baseline week

The person responsible for mailing out pedometers & setting up progress blogs on the intranet site got my blog set up, so I wrote my first entry. A lot of it repeats info I’ve given here already, but oh well. Here’s what it says: Monday, May 8: Waiting for the pedometer Okay, my blog’s up [...]
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Bike day #1

I finally did it. Sometime last fall, we started driving the car less often, & began taking the bus to/from work & other destinations more often. For me, that’s usually meant taking the bus sometimes as many as three or four days of the week, driving only when after-work errands or appointments were necessary. The two [...]
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