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It’s a New Day
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It’s a New Day

December 11, 2014 Crankygiraffe11 Comments

I had a long night on call. Many calls and little sleep. But this morning I signed off of yet another rotation - 6 done and 6 to go. I sat down with my preceptor, exhausted and defeated from yesterday, to go over my evaluation. "This will be quick," he said. "You were... You were… Continue reading It’s a New Day

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The Truth of a Community

October 27, 2014October 25, 2014 Crankygiraffe12 Comments

The problem is, that I thought I was part of a community. Maybe I was, but maybe I wasn't.  It's easy to pretend or to fabricate an idea that something is what you want, even when it really isn't that way at all. I'm not sure what is worse: being abandoned by the community you… Continue reading The Truth of a Community

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A New City

June 21, 2014October 26, 2014 Crankygiraffe4 Comments

I haven't been here long enough to feel like I really live here.  It feels a little bit like a vacation - in a really nice hotel.  I've been so busy unpacking, buying and assembling furniture, and "dealing" with my mother-in-law to really appreciate or understand that this is where I LIVE now. The move… Continue reading A New City

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The Last Tuesday

June 10, 2014 Crankygiraffe2 Comments

Today is my last Tuesday here.  Tomorrow will be my last Wednesday... you get the idea.  There are exactly seven days left of me living in this city.  Seven days of living in this house.  Seven days of talking to my neighbours and seven days of visiting with my friends.  In eight days, life will be… Continue reading The Last Tuesday

The Beginning of The End
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The Beginning of The End

June 2, 2014June 2, 2014 Crankygiraffe5 Comments

2 weeks. I woke up a few times in the middle of the night and the only thing that I could think of was that there are only 10 more days that my kids will get to go to their dayhome.  This is the dayhome they've been going to since they were both born.  At… Continue reading The Beginning of The End

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Blogger Friends Got Ideas!

Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her!  I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]

It’s Been a Long Time…

“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]

The Common Sense Problem

The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]

Walking Tall

This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]

Happiness, Please

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.  We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today.  My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]

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