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What a year! I don't think any of us wil look back fondly on 2020. This has been an especially bad week in a bad year. On Saturday of ...

Hey everybody, Blogger is not playing nicely anymore. The new format won't allow me to upload photos. I'm thinking about switching t...

Last Friday Norma Jean started he meds for bronchitis. She responded almost immediately and she didn't cough all weekend. Then on Tuesda...

Since many of us are still spending most of our time at home these days, how about spending some of it with a new book? I was sent an advanc...

Language can be a real barrier to understanding. I once went on a date with a Frenchman. He spoke about two words of English and I spoke abo...

About ten days ago Norma Jean had a little cough. It sounded like a tickle in her throat and only happened a couple times a day. I took noti...