I am home with these people that I love. In a few days, I will leave home to go home. And that is one of the strange things about moving away from a community where you’ve lived for thirty years to start your home in a new one. Often, when I’m talking to Ivan about […]
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Thank you for all of your well-thought and thought-provoking replies to my last blog post. I intended to answer each one individually and probably still will when I can. This week was a little crazy. So when the week is too overwhelmingly crazy, we clear our throats and talk about other things. Church, for instance.
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Thank you to all of you who have prayed for Ivan and me and our little one. I won’t go into details about the medical issues besides saying the doctor believed, after a physical check, that I might experience complications in pregnancy. An ultrasound this week seems to show that everything’s okay and has relieved
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I worry more than I should. I am 34 and have lived long enough to know what it is to lose—to lose a dream, to lose a child, to lose a friend. My instinct is to hold on. So much of my life has been learning to let go. And so much of my life
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“They used to say that getting old isn’t fun,” my 84-year-old father-in-law tells me, every so often. “And boy, now I sure know what they mean.” I call my father-in-law “Grandpa,” as his children often do. He and “Grandma” got married in their sixties, both of them already grandparents, and “Grandpa and Grandma” slipped easily
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