Category: The Library
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It’s Not About Age
The nurse took me back into the short-infusion room as I prepped for some blood work and a port flush. It’s a quick, 10 minute stop-in I must do once a month as long as I have my port-a-cath in (something to make blood work and infusions easier for me; i.e. no IV’s). We chatted…
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Her World…
Her red curls clung to the back of her neck as I parted her hair and pulled each side into a ponytail. I had just done this yesterday morning, too. (She’s into ponytails now, because she has a friend who wears her hair in ponytails.) This morning we chatted and she sang and we talked…
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Life-Bringers
It is 8:15, and I have just finished tucking in little ones for the night, and now it is time to tuck myself in, too. Or at least that’s how it feels these days. By the end of the day I am so exhausted that I am dropping as soon as they drop, and often…
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It Matters
Their voices overlapped and interrupted, rising in intensity and excitement as they remembered and repeated and replayed scene after scene of the movie. It had only been 2 days since they had seen it, and along with their friend riding home with us that day, they had memorized half the movie (how do they DO…
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Carrying the Grief
For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139: 13 May 5th. All around us are signs of Cinco de Mayo. It’s all over Facebook, the news, it’s even on Google calendar. May 5th. A day of celebration. May 5th. The due date of our first child.…
A Spring of Joy 