Black Oak's Daughter

Yesterday was my 43rd birthday. I celebrated by kidnapping best friend from her family, dragging us out to Galena to meet with my favorite daughter and son-in-law. It’s a day that’s best written about by it’s defining moments, so here goes:
Best moment with my best friend: aside from discussing the hotty, straight off the boat [...]

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I’ve been going through life lately, open to signs that things are going in the right direction.   For example, when I went out to Minime’s place two weeks before the wedding, there was a rainbow, not just a pretty little rainbow, but the biggest honkinist rainbowie rainbow I’ve ever seen, and it stayed in front [...]

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A friend, and fellow cancer survivor, posted this on Facebook yesterday:
The Cancer of Life…
I’ve frequently and painfully realized,
but seldom given it a deserved voice
there are many more forms of untreated cancers
than the ones they can treat right now.
Some are frequent yet subtle visitors
ignored beyond the hectic pace we keep
while others slap us back to cold [...]

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Sorry for the blogging break, it wasn’t intentional.  The last couple of weeks have been very full of real life.
First and most importantly, I’m happy to announce that I’m now a Mother In Law.  Minime tied the knot in a small, somewhat secret, ceremony last week.   It was a joyful day. My best friend drove [...]

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Whew, time’s flying. Im in the midst of a very busy couple of weeks. Next week coming up is our national training meeting at work, then the next weekend is prep and the trip out to see minime and HeWhoIsYetToBeBlogNamed again.  Then the weekend after that is the family party where part of the celebration [...]

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