Thursday, February 20, 2014: 4:30 am: Woke up from a dream that began with me taking graduate classes in a Safeway store on Easter, getting into my car to drive home, and having no breaks, despite pulling the emergency brake backward. 4:32 am: Fell back asleep. 6:20 am: Silently cursed my cell phone/alarm clock as I stabbed the snooze button 6:29 am: When the second alarm goes off, whine to Sunny Morning Jim who is already showered and dressed that I hate mornings . . . after 22 years, he kind… Read more A Day In The Life →
Today my friend Jan died. She was forty-six years old and celebrated a birthday just a couple of weeks ago. Now, she’s gone. Even before I had a child with severe CHD, I thought death was pervasive in my life, from my dad and friend Mary, to coworkers and former classmates. I felt I knew more than my quota of loss. Since becoming a heart mom it’s different. There was a time when every death shook me and reminded me that this family could have been our family. Then my… Read more Good-bye Good Friend →
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Today is February First. If you’re reading this blog, then you most likely know that February is “Heart Month.” If you don’t know it’s Heart Month, you’re probably more concerned… Read more Heartily Aware →
The first thing I wrote after learning, on December 30, 2002, that my unborn baby faced a high likelihood of death at birth was an email to work, explaining why… Read more Can of Worms →
I am not sleeping, so I will write. Tonight (which is now yesterday) at dinner, Liam asked, “Do you know what today is?” and Jim and I looked at each… Read more It Was a Monday →
I hereby declare that this is the last time I will ever write about Shaun White. Why? Because I’m over it. I’m over him. I’m done with this topic, and… Read more Moving on . . . or I’m SO over Shaun White →
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Today means a lot more to people who were aware of life in 1963, than those of us who were not. Those of us who were too young to remember… Read more Assassination T-10, Our Collective PTSD →
Dogs are better/more versatile than vacuum cleaners because there’s no need to switch to the hose attachment to get the dog to suck dead spiders off the basement floor. Dogs… Read more Some truths about dogs and floor care: →
Amanda Rose Adams 