Rolling down the highway, the shuttle took us farther and farther from DD and closer to San Francisco. I was resigned to my fate of not being able to take pictures any time soon. My sister/seat-mate was an excellent conversationalist and we whiled away the time in visiting as if we hadn’t already been living [...]

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The road down the mountain was beginning to be familiar. I wasn’t as timid driving as I was originally but my sister would swear I’d never been timid. She dubbed me “Old Leadfoot”. I didn’t believe I deserved the title but it has stood all these years. Ask her today and she would tell you [...]

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The weekend events began with Baccalaureate. My feet had recovered somewhat so I was there along with my sister. It was much more serious in tone than the program the night before had been. I’d made it a point not to adjust to the time change so by the time it was over, I was [...]

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There we were, the rear tires hanging off the pavement. It wasn’t as critical as it seemed. True, there was a downhill slope behind us but the only drop off was the low shoulder. I could barely see over the hood but there was no traffic coming. The little car was quite nimble and was [...]

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The door swung open and there was our part of the “suite”. The whole thing was two rooms with an adjoining bath. There were two people already occupying the other room so we were roommates. Well, if you wanted to get technical, we were suite-mates. It might have been more attractive before the former occupants [...]

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Next morning, my sister and I got up and packed our bags. We were going to stay the next few nights in the dorm. The underclassmen had already left the campus. It had been a long time since we’d been in that kind of situation but the fact that the rooms weren’t rooms but suites [...]

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Long ago, my mother had taught me to imagine what people were doing to keep from being bored. It could result in all sorts of flights of fancy. Was the man a drug smuggler? Was the bag full of marijuana or cocaine? Maybe it had classified documents and it was a “drop” for another spy [...]

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DS2 explained what the doctors had found. His voice was shaking to the point that I couldn’t understand what he was saying. It might have been more merciful if I hadn’t. “A what?” I asked.
“An omphalocele,” he said. “The baby’s liver and intestines are in a sac on the outside of its body. [...]

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I had about had my fill of changes in my work environment. Things were moving too fast for my taste. I was caught up in it without wanting to be but if I was to have a job, I’d have to ride out the flood. There was increasing disenchantment among the other employees with the [...]

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We engaged in small talk for a few minutes. How has your week been? Has school been going okay? What about work? Yeah, it’s pretty much the same at the hospital. What about the supermarket? You think you’re getting carpal tunnel from the scanning?? Are you and your suite-mate getting along okay? Yada yada yada.
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