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July 31st, 2007

I’ve go the best idea for a reality TV show: my father, and, my mother in law buy a house together.
He needs someone to do stuff for him (like cook), and, she needs to do stuff for someone.
Maybe you have to know them to appreciate that thought, but, I guarantee it’d be #1 in reality […]

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February 16th, 2007

ET Phone Home

Since my mother died, my father has, by default, taken over some of her roles.
It’s more than just the practical things such as grocery shopping, bill paying, and laundry (actually he’s better at laundry than I am, but, that’s beside the point, and, actually, not very hard to do), it’s more of the motherly and […]

By Elizabeth -- 5 comments

February 5th, 2007

It wasn’t all about me, afterall

At my friend’s father’s (that sure was a lot of possesives, there) funeral the other day, I sat with a guy I kind of know, we have kids in the same class at school. He was a friend of the family, and, I discovered from reading the program that his father was a pallbearer. His […]

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January 7th, 2007

A break from our regularly scheduled programming

If you read here for any length of time, we’ve established that: it’s expensive to get old, it’s hard taking care of kids and aging parents at the same time, employers should offer eldercare benefits, and, my dad now lives alone since my mother died in July.
But, did you ever wonder how people found their […]

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December 30th, 2006

Thoughts on Gerald Ford’s death

This has got nothing to do with anything, really, but, in watching the coverage of Gerald Ford’s funeral, I am struck by how exhausting it must be for his family.
When my mother died this past summer, we ended up having to wait 5 days between her death and her funeral because of the church schedule. […]

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November 29th, 2006

Eeep!

I think I may have deleted a comment by accident. If it was yours, I’m sorry, and, I still love you!
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September 27th, 2006

Don’t mind me…

Here’s a post about my Technorati Profile so I can claim this here blog in their system.
Hey, I just do what the Technorati gods tell me to do.
Technorati Profile, is this thing working??
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