It’s been 2 weeks since we moved our youngest into her dorm room to start her freshman year of college. In so many ways it still doesn’t feel real that she is gone. I keep waiting for the day she will come back home, just like the many times she was away for a fewContinue reading “The Nest is Empty”
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It started as heartburn…
Or so I thought. In the spring that I celebrated my 43rd trip around the sun, I started to to notice a weird feeling in my chest. Just occasionally. Mostly at the end of the day. Always when I was at rest. Often after a meal. I was experiencing a higher than normal level ofContinue reading “It started as heartburn…”
What’s in a name?
Fridays are for hiking. At least most of them. Iowa weather has been (mostly) cooperative this fall to allow me to hit the trails as we continue to march towards winter. I am usually alone as I trek step after step through the Iowa wilderness, though I try to take a 4-legged companion with meContinue reading “What’s in a name?”
Woman After... 