This time of year, there are many opportunities to review the past year. Here are my primary lowlights and highlights of 2014:
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Yearly Archives: 2014
A Brother’s Observations
Hey there, this is J. I am BHD’s twin brother. My wife and I are visiting him again this Christmas. It has been a much better visit than last year, when I came after the holiday to spend a month helping to care for my brother-in-law during about the worst of the downside of a relapse of his ongoing infections.
This year, once again, I am watching the most expert organizer and a man of exceptional patience “do his thing.” What’s up?
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Post-Christmas Ride
My spouse had a long list of chores to do on the day after Christmas. Fortunately, we got the chores done rather quickly.
My brother and his wife wanted visit some of our family, my mother-in-law had that hungry look in her eye. So I tossed my brother the keys to my truck and said, “it’s yours for the rest of the day.”
I got busy feeding the bottomless pit … I mean my mother-in-law. But after lunch, the sun was brilliant and it was unusually warm for this time of year. My spouse graciously suggested,
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My Best Christmas Present, Ever
Today, I am delighted that I have the best Christmas present ever… under my covers, not the tree.
What?
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Not a Creature is Stirring
Greetings on a very early Christmas Eve morning. As usual, I am up well before dawn, while the rest of our household is slumbering peacefully.
My spouse looks so cute all snuggled up under the comforter, breathing softly. Dreaming of sugarplums?
Our three other guests…
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Quietude
These days leading up to Christmas find me at home. Off work on leave. I have been busy, though, but different from the usual hustle-and-bustle of work-work-work and community caring activities with my senior pals. I find myself engaged mostly in…
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Smiles for the Holidays
For the first time in three very long years, there are renewed smiles in the ol’ BHD household. Trust me, in the image below the jump, my spouse really is smiling 🙂
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Boots Worn Recently
I posted recently that I was not writing blogs about what boots I wore each day during the week because it took a lot of time do construct those detailed posts. However, in response to some comments and emails I received, my commentary of “boots of some period of time” has returned, albeit more abbreviated. Here goes…
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I Have Straight Friends
Okay, I am coming clean. I am admitting for the first time, publicly, that I have straight friends.
I sat my spouse down last night and told him the truth — the complete story — that his spouse of 21+ years has straight friends and that I have been in touch with them by email or even over lunch last Friday.
But don’t worry about it… just because some of my male friends are straight does not mean…
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Spouse’s Recovery
I have been hesitant to post anything on this blog about my spouse’s ongoing health condition as he continues the fight to recover from the serious long-term infections he had been dealing with almost this entire year when he had a major relapse starting last December. But now…
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