Posted on July 1, 2008 by benjamin67
So I am in an angry troll kind of mood.
Ethan had his second urodynamics test today, but I could not go because we had an emergency at work (it is 7:15pm as I write this…I am still at work…waiting for customer confirmation). The Urodynamics test is by far the most invasive test ever conceived of [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 by benjamin67
Life can take you some unexpected places. When I was a kid, I always dreamed of getting a house in my parents’ neighborhood when I grew up. My sister always looked to more distant horizons. She was the bold one who went to school out of state. I was the one who went to Junior [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2008 by benjamin67
Some days are just perfect. They are rare, but they do happen.
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by benjamin67
Posted on April 2, 2008 by benjamin67
Yesterday I picked my son up from school. The minute we got out of the car, several of his friends were asking him if he wanted to play. Of course he did not pass up the opportunity.
I went in the house and started doing the dishes. After a few minutes, the door bangs open and [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by benjamin67
A year or so back, my son like all children had problems listening to his parents, at least the first time. Wanting to use positive reinforcement to bring him back on the straight and narrow, we used a friend’s idea of “The Listening Ladder.” Basically it was a list of activities he enjoyed doing. As [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2008 by benjamin67
I am reading a book called “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” It is about a guy that becomes “unstuck” in time. He revisits key moments in his and others lives. His wife gets visited throughout her childhood by her future husband.
I love the idea of time travel. “Slaughterhouse 5” is another time travel book that I [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008 by benjamin67
Last night I was thinking about what I might want to write about today. Memory was the topic. Then one of my most powerful memories was triggered.
My sister left me a message. Larry Norman is dead. To the two or three people who read this posting, the name may not sound familiar. But this individual [...]
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