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Two Craniotomies and a Casa in Pedasi, Panama (opens the original)
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It was early 2020, and COVID had descended upon the world, coinciding with my brain tumor reappearing, nineteen years after my first surgery in 2001. I was scheduled for my second craniotomy on June 3, 2020, during COVID lockdown.We turned into the Stanford Healthcare System parking lot in Palo Alto, California. Noel reached over and grabbed my hand, and all the love, heartbreak, and happiness of our thirty years of marriage passed silently through our grasp. He stopped the car in the patient lo
Houses From My Past (opens the original)
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I have always been drawn to old vintage homes. While driving home from a visit with my 83-year-old Mom this week, I pulled over in Alvarado, Texas to capture this beauty.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="944" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!COE
Is your Email inbox Overwhelmed? Would you like to stay subscribed, but STOP all the emails from Substack? (opens the original)
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I sent out a newsletter celebrating International Dog Day today that included a story about my dog, Gracie, and received three subscriber discontinuation notices. Really? It breaks my heart; you don’t love my dog as much as I do. But hey, I get it; maybe you are a cat person, right?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1700753409226-6a29753b4ad7?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzM3x8Y29tcHV0ZXIlMjBvdmVyd2hlbG1l
Meet Princess Gracie, my International Rescue Doggie from Panama (opens the original)
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A Child Bride Horror Story in Ohio (opens the original)
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Reports continue to emerge from the “House of Horrors” in Hamden, Ohio. But there is a darker underbelly here; an untold story that lies hidden beneath the surface and needs to be heard: the story of Elizabeth Siders, the child bride and mother of the 16 children. Her story must be brought out into the open, discussed, and acted upon, as it is rooted in the deepest, darkest secrets in the US: the story of a 15-year-old minor, a child bride, now a 33-year-old mother who, it seems, has been pregna
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