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Rings of the Tree
The First Ring He was handsome, loaded with personality and very smart. His teachers liked to say that Jeff could learn more looking out the window of the classroom than others could with...
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Rings of the Tree
Rings of the Tree Prologue As she rounded the curve, she remembered the last time she saw him sane…and the first time she realized that he was not…at least, not always. Later, she somehow felt she...
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Meeses Scare Me to Pieces
Mice came with the house that my father had moved into town from one of his farms. We could hear them running through the walls. When one came out into the living space, I got the shovel from the...
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Kickin’ Up My Heels
Today is the first time in my life that I remember leaving the doctor’s office wanting to kick up my heels. I can’t, of course. It is not something I was ever able to do, and at 75 years old, I would...
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Keep Moving
A bicycle built for two may be a way to relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The tandem bike was the focus of one of the Top 10 Medical Innovations for Cleveland Clinic, in 2012, according to the...
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Rocked and Restored
Rocked and Restored When was the last time you woke up rested…really rested, and exuberant and excited about meeting the day? Do you remember the last time you had an experience so indefinably happy...
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Once In My Lifetime
I was determined to do this. I had planned it for this very day – my 70th birthday – and I could not back down now. However, as the minutes counted down and the task was imminent, I shut my eyes and...
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Medicine Recall and Telemedicine for the Future
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries announced recently that it is recalling one lot of its generic Parkinson’s disease combination medication, carbidopa/levodopa, because it potentially contains too much of...
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Coffee or Tea?
IS IT COFFEE OR TEA? Some of you out there knew my first husband, Jim Miner (1936 – 1981), and his best friend, Jim Chapman. They were both math teachers at Victor Valley College. Jim Miner would often...
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