Category: My Story

After Groundhog Day

Yesterday the famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow, which means we have 6 more weeks of winter. In Michigan it would be divine if this were the case! Usually our Spring dusts itself off sometime in June. In honor of the occasion I watched “Groundhog Day”, the movie, where the main character is caught …

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January 31

Tomorrow I must remember to say outloud “rabbit, rabbit” a family tradition that we are sure that, said first thing, will give us good luck all month. I surely hope so… The weekend was wonderful, good friend a’visiting and watching Joshie in the Honors Band symphony, looking handsome and proud. I like the smaller version …

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For Zoey

I heard angels singing in the voice of Dan, when he announced Miss Zoey Grace Pitre made her debut 1/26/2010! What joy, what incredibility a birth is… My soul jumped like I think Elizabeth’s soul must have, when greeting her cousin, Mary of Nazareth, as she appeared at her door. Birth. I have always wondered …

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Journal Musings – New Year

January 1, 2010 I had begun my new year on 11/6/2009 so I just chilled out about the Big Night. A good friend stopped by with the remainder of some champagne so I could toast the New Year. “Chin, chin” as Tony would say. Resolutions: none. 6 mos ago when I heard my diagnosis I …

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There once was a gal with Dystonia

  Her friends dubbed her Ruby Begonia When her face would distort and her body contort and they’d wave and say “Good to know ya” Dystonia. A city in Yugoslavia? or Russia? Oh don’t I wish. With the joy of dementia (maybe the working title I should use for my book?) comes many accessories, I …

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