Father’s Day

June 20, 2009

All our friends keep knocking at the door They’ve asked me out a hundred times or more But all I say is, “Leave me in the gloom” And here I stay within my lonely room ‘Cause… I don’t want to walk without you, Baby Walk without my arm about you, Baby I thought the day [...]

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Maddie’s Little Friend

June 18, 2009

Whenever Maddie went to my parents’ house, she watched Sesame Street. It’s not that I didn’t like Sesame Street, because I do (although I am not Elmo’s number one fan), it’s just that Sesame Street was the special thing Maddie did when she was with Gramma and Bampa. And while she tolerated Elmo, she LOOOOOOVED [...]

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Another Life

June 18, 2009

I met up with my friend Dana today in the beach town we used to live in. We had lunch on the rooftop deck of a restaurant next to the sand. It was good for me to sit in the sun. After lunch, we walked around on the pier and the beach. Memories of my [...]

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A Lesson In Bedside Manner

June 17, 2009

I’ve had a lot of different types of health insurance. HMO, POS, PPO, EPO, Kaiser. And I’ve had my own fair share of doctor and hospital visits. I’ve had dozens of x-rays (arm, nose, hand, fingers, chest, ankle, lungs), a handful of MRIs and CT scans (head), hundreds of blood draws, more ultrasounds than I [...]

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Stages

June 16, 2009

They say there are seven stages of grief, and that you’re supposed to go from one stage to another. I go through most of the stages every day. Shock – I was in shock watching the doctors and nurses give my daughter chest compressions, shock when the doctors stopped trying to save her, and shock [...]

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Worry Spohr-t

June 15, 2009

I have always been a bit of a worry wort. The other day, for example, I saw a man walking his dog without a leash and immediately felt sick. What if the dog took off into the street and got hit by a car? Or suddenly was attacked by a bigger dog? The owner, I’m sure, would tell [...]

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