Category: Other Thoughts

Spoken from the Heart

It’s been almost 8 years since Vicki was diagnosed with FTD, although she experienced many of the symptoms for several years before her diagnosis. Late diagnosis, tragically, is common for persons who have this disease. Although I’ve seen FTD take an ever-greater toll in her life these past several years, she still has a strong …

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Rest in Peace, Brother Robin

Robin Williams has died. I am speechless, but I knew I would see this one day. Geniuses & artists are prophets, in a way. He shared his genius – and we responded – for so many years. But he needed a sound love, resilient to his many voices, that were beyond him to control. His …

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Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2014/08/rest-in-peace-brother-robin/

Weathering the Storms

This past weekend, Winter storms kept me from visiting Vicki; it’s been too long since my last visit. In a separate blog I’ve started, last month I wrote about something we experienced during my last visit that shows how quickly and unexpectedly things can change. Here, slightly adapted, is what I wrote: I thought I’d …

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Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2013/02/weathering-the-storms/

Seasons and Life

As Vicki Wells Bedard’s partner with Vicki’s Voice, I usually keep my posts in another section of the site (“Jim’s Blog”), and more often than not those occasional posts are about blogging software and techniques. This week, though, as cooling weather in the Midwest signals the upcoming change in seasons, I’ve been thinking about seasons …

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Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2010/09/seasons-and-life/

So you’ve had a bad day…

Bad days come in all sizes and shapes, and sometimes you’ve done something so amazingly bad that even though you are the only one in the world who knows what you just did, your face turns scarlet! Yes, you can embarrass you. It’s a fact of life. One would think – being safely withdrawn from …

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