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Welcome Back!

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Heather

Welcome back! As you can see, it’s taken me more than three years to get back to writing here. I could make a million excuses but I’ll boil it down to just these two: 1) The last post I wrote … Continue reading →

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A Melancholy Celebration of Twenty Years of Marriage

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Heather

A few times in my life I’ve had a pit in my stomach; a feeling that things were about to change in ways I couldn’t dream of, with experiences I couldn’t fathom. When Tom left Nha Trang, Vietnam last May after … Continue reading →

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Take Two: China – You Kicked My Ass!

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Heather

Gentle reader: This is a radical re-write (or maybe an extension?) of a post about the trip to China that I wrote in my last blog. You can read that here. I am taking a course called “Damn Fine Words” which … Continue reading →

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