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My Oxygen Mask

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I was lying on the floor towards the end of my workout routine, at the part where the video calls for leg lifts while striking a pose reminiscent of a sultry singer lying on top of a grand piano. During … Continue reading

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Put a Little Joy in Your Day

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Most articles I come across these days do not provide me new information on maintaining brain health. That happily was not the case with an article that I read this past week. The article provided five tips for brain health, … Continue reading

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Great Party and Testimonies

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Cindy’s birthday party was a great success! A variety of people came, a reflection of Cindy’s various spheres of influence. In addition to family, friends and neighbors, people came that corresponded to Cindy’s past involvement with scouting, church and, of … Continue reading

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What to Expect from Cindy

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I denied my Mom had Alzheimer’s while we were taking care of her. Back then people expected that advanced Alzheimer’s patients stopped recognizing the people around them. I concluded that Mom must have senility dementia instead, because she always recognized … Continue reading

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Evolution of a Birthday Party

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I’ve been going through the thousands of photos Cindy once digitized for our extended families. The initial purpose was to categorize them into slideshows. By hooking up my computer to an LCD panel via an HDMI cable (ah, the technology … Continue reading

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Wondering

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Cindy and I usually watch sitcoms for their lighthearted value, but when they are built on character development more serious episodes also occur. Recently we watched a sitcom episode where the father of one of the main character’s died. Cindy … Continue reading

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Managing Trust with an Expedition Woman

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Cindy trusts me. One touching, memorable moment when we were hiking the American Discovery Trail provides proof of this. I messed up as navigator by taking a wrong turn onto a jeep road, high up along the Carson Range in … Continue reading

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An “In Body” Experience

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Maybe the slight change in our routine caused this to happen. I went downstairs to brew the coffee, then came back up to snuggle with Cindy a bit before getting her day started. I climbed out of bed and went … Continue reading

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Squeezing By

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Our house has wide open passages between all the rooms except one: the kitchen. To go from the kitchen to anywhere else in the house warrants single file only. As with most homes the main action occurs in the kitchen. … Continue reading

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Cindy’s Brief One-Liners

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“I’m dying here!” Cindy exclaimed. No, this was not from feeling under the weather or depressed about her condition. Indeed, she recently got over a cold and has been in a jovial mood lately. I also recently shaved my beard … Continue reading

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