Happy Thanksgiving folks. People like to ask what you are thankful for and it is an easy answer for me. This Thanksgiving is the 5-year anniversary of the discovery of my kidney failure. I was very close to death in...
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Loneliness is a large part of being human. Many of us don’t like our own personalities so we have a need to be with someone else as much as possible. We don’t quite love ourselves. I realize how far into...
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This column is pretty much based on the latest thoughts in my brain and is often dependent on a video I have recently watched or something I heard in Church that day or just on something that has happened in...
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Every day I feel stronger and stronger. When I came out of heart surgery I really had very little hope of ever feeling well again. That was a lot of pain and immobility. So I am very excited to be...
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I am still healing up nicely. This morning’s walk was amazing, up the hill and around the soccer field and around the block with no problem. Three months ago that would have been an impossible dream. I am pretty excited...
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I have been through a lot of health issues in the past 5 years. Some very serious stuff but I seem to keep bouncing back. This last surgery was dreadful and I really did ot think I would ever be...
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I used to love getting invited onto someone’s ski boat for an afternoon of ripping around Lake Windermere. It is such a beautiful valley and the middle of the lake gives you a great view of the mountains around us....
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