Category: Thoughts, Rants and Other Blogs
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Grounded and Blessed
July 24, 2023 As I was catching up on my weekly phone call with my best friend last week I thought to myself, how much I adore these conversations each week and how much these weekly conversations kept me grounded as I was going through my cancer journey, but the more I thought about it,…
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Finding God in the Valley
July 13, 2023 Recently, I had one of the most horrible experiences that I’ve had in a long, long time. On our flight back from Ireland about halfway through the almost 9-hour flight back I began to get violently ill and spent the next 3-hours or so throwing up in the airplane restroom. We all…
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Not all Handicaps can be seen
July 4, 2023 I honestly don’t even know where to start this blog, or how to present the content in the light that I truly want to highlight it as, however, I’m going to do my best and pray that the message is well received in the way that I would like for it to…
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Remembering Yia Yia
May 17, 2023 On the eve of my Mother-In-Law’s funeral, I wanted to take a moment to write my own special tribute to her as well as share her obituary for those who knew her. Mano and I married on February 20, 2010, which also happens to be the day that I met my MIL…
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Happy Mother’s Day to the Non-biological Mama’s everywhere!
Mother’s Day – May 14th, 2023 I am always conflicted as this day approaches because of how I feel and what should I share with the outside world, however, this year I have decided that I am tired of being “politically correct” or that I should not speak the truth that so many of us “Non-biological”…
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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 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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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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