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What A Difference A Day Makes

What A Difference A Day Makes

On ordinary days, one day melts into another. Then, in a 24 hour period, the world dumps up-side-down. This picture showed up on my computer from seven years ago the other day. This was a colt that had been born the summer before. Life was in the normal mode. Then things flipped. On the next St. Patrick’s Day the PET scans showed my husband had stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. That horrible disease and spread all through him. Within six…

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Wedding Anniversaries

Wedding Anniversaries

Yesterday would have been our 57th wedding anniversary. I don’t know how so many years have flown so quickly. I wrote this poem on the occasion of our 49th anniversary to my husband. Love Poem Over the years, my love, we’ve fallen in ditches, trudged a few fields, and picked our way along some difficult paths. Those treks have been bearable because you were by my side.   He died fourteen months ago. Oh, would that he were still here!…

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