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Carrying my brother’s ashes

The package was wrapped in some Mexican Day of the Dead cloth and tied with a bright woven sash. It was about ten inches square. It was very heavy. The package contained my brother, or what was left of him. My sister-in-law had already scattered half his ashes in a favorite spot out by Tampa […]

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obit

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Fever Dreams

photo © 2011 Sagar Kumar | more info (via: Wylio)My brother called last night. He’s been in a hospital for the last week and a half, coming back from the brink of death one more time. Missing most of his digestive system, tumors spreading but slowed by liberal applications of chemotherapy, my brother just keeps […]

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Thinking about Facebook

I’ve been thinking about Facebook, more the last couple of days now that all the students are back and we need to worry about blocking Facebook during study hall. The decision to block it during study hours was the recommendation of a committee a year or two ago. The committee was formed of administrators, faculty, […]

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Driveabout

I woke up this morning thinking about gratitude The thing that I am most grateful for today is that my brother is on driveabout. His last scan showed a bunch of new little tumors but they aren’t going to start more chemo for a few weeks So he and my sister in law have gone […]

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