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I vaguely remember daydreaming with a friend as we were both steeped deeply in naivety as first time pregnant women. Our conversations would drift happily through la la land about the challenges and heartaches we would experience as parents. Blah, blah, blah. Parenting is nothing like you can imagine. It […]

Normal Never Happens to Us







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When you get immersed in a chronically ill community, you meet so many amazing warriors fighting for breath, for life, for their families with such courage and conviction. You grab on for the ride with their highs and lows and celebrate their successes, no matter how small or large. In fact, […]

A time to heal…..


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I was a gullible 15 year old working my first real job, developing pictures in a darkroom of a photography studio. When developing photos we used a safe yellow light to be able to “see” what we were doing. When developing film, however, it had to be completely dark and […]

X-ray contacts




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In my old party days, when I heard the word “stout” I either thought of short and rump or one of my favorite things on the planet – Guinness. Of course that was after my semesters abroad in England, where my favorite pub bar-keep would put a clover leaf into […]

Stout or Stouthearted