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I have a friend who totally knows I’m writing about her (or at least she will by the time this blog is published and other people start telling her about it!). She was reading something online about Gay Days at Walt Disney World, and as she is just in the beginning stages of planning her…
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While cruising is one of my favorite vacations EVER, it is not without its stressful moments. Does everyone have their passports? How am I going to fit 3 outfit changes per day per person for a 7 night cruise into luggage that will fit in the overhead compartment of the plane? Does my ass look…
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There’s a song I used to hear a lot, growing up with my Dad. The song, from a band called the Wolfe Tones, is called Quare Things in Dublin, and on the surface is about a clock in the city that has four separate faces. If you look at it from one side of the street,…
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A child walked into a house today and made the declaration, “Oh my gosh, whatever you’re cooking smells amazing!” It was my house. This was one of my children. And she wasn’t fishing for concert tickets, car keys, or a puppy. My house is cluttered. Currently, my railing is sporting two weeks worth of clean…
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I may have expressed a fondness for the Mo Rocca show on the Cooking Channel “My Grandmother’s Ravioli”. I love it – beyond love. It is a look at the grandparents who came to this country from foreign lands, bringing with them the recipes from generations of Irish grandmoms, Italian grandmoms, Jewish and Russian grandmoms.…
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Nephrology is the study of diseases of the kidney. There are lots of diseases of the kidney. I happen to be the recipient of one chronic kidney condition that truly is the gift that keeps on giving. I have chronic kidney stones. Some people are great at many things. It turns out, I am great…
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It was the LAST thing I would have ever expected. Days before my 40th birthday, having battled infertility much of my childbearing years, the sheer exhaustion I was feeling was dismissed as an impending bug. Seeing the two happy pink lines on the home pregnancy test? Yep, the LAST thing I would have guessed.…
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Knights come in all shapes and sizes, and believe it or not, they don’t all wear those big, gaudy, tacky suits. My sister is facing one of the most difficult experiences of her life in the next 24 hours. But she is an amazing woman. She is strong, she is brave, and she faces things…