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My Latest Posts

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• Compare to despair – originally published on LinkedIn on 12/20/23December 20, 2023
  “You must hold something with purpose before you can truly let it go.” My dad was a welder during the oil boom of the early 1980s. This was a feast… Read more: Compare to despair – originally published on LinkedIn on 12/20/23
• The First Day of the Rest of My LifeDecember 30, 2022
  Today is December 30, 2022. I am 48 years 8 months 7 days old. I am one day older than my father will ever be, and I’ve now outlived him.… Read more: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
• Happiest New Year!December 30, 2021
  Long time no write . . . We’ve been busy. Here’s the highlight reel: I’m trying to figure out the new WordPress layout it’s been SO LONG since I blogged.… Read more: Happiest New Year!
• Chapters ? – Heart Warriors ReshuffleDecember 30, 2021
  The first a chapter is from the original Heart Warriors (2012) but I am rewriting it with new information and events. I’m not sure where this chapter (which will stay… Read more: Chapters ? – Heart Warriors Reshuffle
• Not My Place to SayJuly 23, 2020
  Today was the third day at my new job. Monday was the last day at my old job. Other things that happened today: My friend had good news for me… Read more: Not My Place to Say
• The Poetry of TraumaMay 12, 2020
  Twice in the past two months I’ve heard two writers, one a memoirist and the other a medical doctor say something like, “Only poets can write about trauma.” Seventeen years… Read more: The Poetry of Trauma
• An Anniversary Book ExcerptMay 4, 2020
  I may have mentioned that I got the rights back to my book, Heart Warriors, A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease. I am almost done with rewriting it to include… Read more: An Anniversary Book Excerpt
• The Last Childhood BirthdayApril 29, 2020
  Liam turned seventeen today (well yesterday now, it’s after midnight). For those of you who know his story, I’ll let you absorb how huge 17 is. His next birthday he… Read more: The Last Childhood Birthday
• Chronic CoronaMarch 13, 2020
  For the first six years of my first child’s life we lived a rarified sort of life. Frequent isolation and social distancing was a fixture of his survival, and we… Read more: Chronic Corona
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  Dinner ConversationFebruary 6, 2020
  Today is February 6, 2020. Fifteen years ago, I was wigging our about our son’s third open-heart surgery, scheduled for February 8th. It was bumped to February 9th. That is… Read more: Dinner Conversation

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