Nola is one now. She has been for quite some time. Of course you would have had to infer such an event because it has been an eon and a half since the last time I updated my blog.
I’m thinking about ending this blog and starting a new one. I am a person who really [...]

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Nola now has 5-1/2 teeth. Every single one was a hard fought victory for the both of us. My back is excited for that 1/2 tooth to drive our tally up to a nice, even 6 (Nola demands an inordinate amount of arm time when cutting teeth).
On Saturday, I celebrated my own toothy victory. After [...]

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Constance couldn’t spend another day trapped beneath her suffocating long hair. Ninety-degree temperatures haven’t helped matters any. Neither has Nola’s increasingly good grip on all things tactile. Yesterday over lunch, I walked with my ladies to the salon around the corner from where I work. Nola and I rocked it solo, sipping Starbucks and singing [...]

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Today marks a big step forward for me. I finished the first draft of a short story - 9 pages, 4500 words. It’s a story I’ve been meaning to write since September. Notes were jotted down on a Word document, placed in the “Personal” folder on my desktop, and left to linger with several other [...]

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Opportunity costs are often even more outrageously expensive than the fiscal deficits created by the price of entertainment. I’ve lived in a home with cable television since I was in the 7th grade, but this morning I took hold of that lengthy string of overly entertained years and cut the cord.
The Millers officially are living [...]

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Yes, it is true. My lovely wife has been stolen from me for the week by her employer, deployed to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for some asinine team bonding. As much as I miss her, which is an indescribable amount, I’m far more relieved that I’m not the one who is being [...]

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First of all I would like to apologize for my absence. It has been a tough-yet-eventful few days around the Miller household and, well, I honestly can say that the last thing I felt like doing was putting words against yet another painful day in the life of someone I love completely.
On Tuesday morning, as [...]

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My friend, Mar, has had a tough row to hoe following the removal of her colon - as one might expect when something as vital as the colon has been removed. Every complication and every roadblock her doctors told her was a possibility became reality, and what we all hoped might be the smoothest of [...]

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Today I’ve been editing an interview with Suzanne Somers, which will appear in the health and wellness magazine I produce, and I have to admit I’m a bit geeked out pouring through her words. “Three’s Company” was one of my favorite shows as a child because, apparently, I am and always will be comforted by [...]

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