Category: Blog Posts
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Time . . . Is it our friend or our foe?
April 23, 2023 I’ve been thinking about this a lot and what exactly is time for us and what does it mean? Does time offer us joy or bring us pain? Do we really live in the moment, or do we just focus our energy on anticipating what is next instead and avoiding what will…
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Happy Easter
April 9, 2023 Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays. For me, Easter is more impactful than Christmas. Easter is the Christian celebration where Jesus rose from the dead after a brutal crucifixion on the cross. As a child, Easter was about spending the day with family, starting your Sunday morning with an…
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Happy 1 Year Cancer-Anniversary
April 5, 2023 It’s crazy to think that a year ago today I was at MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas, preparing to have my tumor, Oscar, excised from my body once and for all. I can still remember the peace that washed over me that morning and knowing that I was being covered…
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Happy 85th Birthday, Dad.
March 23, 2023 Today is my dad’s 85th Birthday and I’m honored that God chose him to be Nicky and I’s dad and Mom’s husband. My dad means so much to so many of you and you’ve all been so amazing reaching out to our family and provide your comfort, prayers, support and guidance as…
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Scan Anxiety – the struggle is real.
March 20, 2023 It’s hard to understand the anxiety that comes with a cancer diagnosis until you have experienced it for yourself. I believe that it doesn’t matter how long it’s been since your diagnosis, or how far away you are from that diagnosis but the simple fact that you had been diagnosed previously that…
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Fading Away
Written February 25, 2023 – Posted March 3, 2023 My family and I have watched my father fade away for the past 5+ years now and we have grieved the loss of the man that he was as we painfully watch him change to the man he is today. In the beginning, we noticed small…
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In the Navy . . .
February 26, 2022 I am proud to announce that my nephew Tanner Sarris is now officially a Navy Seaman. He followed his dreams to travel the world and fight for our country, if needed, and signed up to go into the Navy after high school. It took a bit to get him into the service…
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What is your word?
January 25, 2023 Hello there and Happy New Year! Yes, I know that we are 22 days into the New Year and I’m finally getting around to blogging, apologies to you all, I am a bit behind. Our family went on a cruise for New Year’s and I picked up a mild case of the…
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Christmas 2022
December 25, 2022 Apologies – I wrote this yesterday and forgot to post it until today. Please forgive me, I hope the meaning still feels the same. I can imagine that many of you have been up for hours, watching your children and/or grandchildren delight in opening their gifts as you pick up the strewn…
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Suicide is NEVER the answer…
December 19, 2022 My head has been reeling since I heard the news last week of Stephen “Twitch” Boss’s passing from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I was disturbed by this on so many levels, probably like many of you. From the outside and from what we all saw on social media, The Ellen Show, and…
Pink is NOT my kolor 