Category: Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief
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First Comes Love, Then comes marriage…..
Have you seen Facebook today? It is exploding with this flag: This is the Human Rights Campaign’s push for marriage equality as the Supreme Court hears arguments today. It really is pretty cool, history is currently being made, one way or another. In the last year, I have developed my own opinion of love…
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Zombie Apocalypse and Super Storm Bob:
I traveled to D.C this week. 24 hours before leaving I was diagnosed with a sinus infection. There is nothing worse than flying with a sinus infection. Except maybe a Zombie Apocalypse….which I’ll get to. After said diagnosis, I explained to my doctor that I was flying the next day and the last time I…
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Don’t hate me for this post….
Because you might.You know one of those posts where your rational brain says, “maybe you shouldn’t go there.”But that other brain says, “I can’t get this off my mind?”This is one of those posts.Hubby and I wake up every morning to NPR. This usually means I am processing conversations between Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un in…
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A Truly Magnificent Character
Hubby was viewing my blog the other day. “All of your posts are about death,” he said. “That is not true. Remember the election? That post wasn’t about death…it was political.” “Death and politics,” he said. Hmmmmm. So I told myself my next post would not be about death. We even went to a Who…
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The Art of Talking About Dying
Well, happy Sunday, huh? A couple months ago, I volunteered to speak at an Ethics conference about Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate (DNAR) standards in terminally ill children. My conversations this last week went somewhat like this…. “Heather, what are you doing on Friday?” “Well I’ll tell ya, I’m speaking about do not resuscitate standards in…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 