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Carotid Artery/Heart tests -- No results yet.

PeterT wrote 3 months ago: Warm gel is a good thing when having an echo-cardiogram and a carotid sonogram.  Yesterday was Mary … more →

Tags: Meaningful Caregiving, Practical Tools for Coping, Therapeutic Activities, Daily Challenges, Sources of Strength, Parkinson's disease, Caregiving Spouses, Coping with Challenges, Practical Caregiving Ideas

The Beaded Bracelet1 comment

colleeninthekitchen wrote 3 months ago: Around my stethoscope hangs a small dull beaded bracelet. It has been there for six years. I was giv … more →

Tags: just my thoughts, Health Issues, Cancer, Loosing a Child, Life is great, Attitude about life, Thinking About Death, balloons and a red dress.

The Importance of Death4 comments

jimrees wrote 4 months ago: This is a tough subject, in fact it’s one that most of us don’t really give a great deal … more →

Tags: 1, death, learning from death, A postive spin on death, Living Fully, being ok

So There is Time Enough

wolfwriter wrote 4 months ago: Today’s New York Times has two op ed columns (Frank Rich and Timothy Egan ) that talk about Mad Men, … more →

Tags: writing, on being authentic, Living, On Turning 60, slaying dragons, following your bliss, turning 60, Story, writing story

Richard Burgin. The Identity Club.

rjfarrell28 wrote 4 months ago: A man works at an ad agency and is drawn into a club, where members assume the identity of a famous … more →

Tags: Short Stories, Contemporary American Short Fiction (ed. by J.C. Oates), Philosophy, Parties, 3rd person limited, social conditions, NYC, short time span story

Russell Banks. Lobster Night.

rjfarrell28 wrote 4 months ago: A young waitress and an older man work at a restaurant.  The man shoots a bear that is rifling throu … more →

Tags: Short Stories, Contemporary American Short Fiction (ed. by J.C. Oates), 3rd person, Love, Relationships

The Way Out.

rjfarrell28 wrote 5 months ago: A man ends an affair with a married woman, only to have her husband walk in on them during their las … more →

Tags: Short Stories, Steven Millhauser. The Knife Thrower., 3rd person limited, Husband-Wife, Marriage, adultery

Her Real Name.

rjfarrell28 wrote 5 months ago: Navy vet picks up girl in Illinois.  Road journey.  She’s dying of cancer.  Meandering plot an … more →

Tags: Short Stories, Charles D'Ambrosio. The Point., Disease, 3rd person limited, on the road

Stuart Dybek. Death of the Right Fielder.

rjfarrell28 wrote 5 months ago: Minimalist structure.  Mystery at first, then themes on death and dying.  Starts out plausible and d … more →

Tags: Short Stories, Contemporary American Short Fiction (ed. by J.C. Oates), 1st person, minimalist, Baseball

Staring at Stairs. *gawk*.

alicepsc09china wrote 6 months ago: Here’s another look at China.. Or at least another look at ancient China… So here’ … more →

Tags: Being A Tourist, China, observations, Acrophobia, beihai, bell tower, Causality, Drum Tower, Heart Disease

China has issues, and I'm not talking about magazines

alicepsc09china wrote 6 months ago: Back to photo blogging.. this one is dedicated to all the random crap that goes down in China.. I br … more →

Tags: China, observations, Magic, Beijing, Bikers, black lung, breathe, Chinglish, death

Reflection 109: Integrity II1 comment

Steve Perrin wrote 7 months ago:   (Copyright © 2009)   The coherence of consciousness is tended by our left-brain interpreter whose … more →

Tags: Consciousness, The Mind, Philosophy, The Brain, Integrity, thoreau, Judgment, Left-Brain Interpreter, Charles Lindbergh

Jose Eduarod Agualusa. The Book of Chameleons.

rjfarrell28 wrote 8 months ago: Narrated by a chameleon who lives in the house of a man who creates fictional identities in Angola, … more →

Tags: Novels, 2009 Novels, 1st person, social conditions, Animal Life, Historical

Mark Wisniewski. Straightaway.

rjfarrell28 wrote 8 months ago: Three men have been hired to dispose of a woman’s oil-drum with unknown contents, possibly con … more →

Tags: The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Ed. by Salman Rus, Short Stories, 3rd person limited, murder, Underdog, African-American

Alice Munro. Dimension.

rjfarrell28 wrote 9 months ago: Father kills children to punish his wife after she leaves him for a night.   Lloyd’s personali … more →

Tags: Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King &am, Grief, 3rd person limited, Children, Husband-Wife, Marriage, murder

Eileen Pollack. The Bris.

rjfarrell28 wrote 9 months ago: An dying father confesses to his son that he lived a life pretending to be Jewish.  He asks the son … more →

Tags: Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King &am, Father & Son, Old Age, 3rd person limited, Florida, Rituals, Religion, judiaism

Kate Walbert. Do Something.

rjfarrell28 wrote 9 months ago: A woman keeps getting arrested trying to take photographs of the coffins as the emerge from cargo pl … more →

Tags: Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King &am, War, Grief, 3rd person limited, Children, mother son

Roy Kesey. Wait.

rjfarrell28 wrote 9 months ago: People waiting for a plane in an airport go through a come devolution of civilization as the hours b … more →

Tags: Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King &am, Philosophy, 3rd person, social conditions

Randy DeVita. Riding the Doghouse.

rjfarrell28 wrote 9 months ago: Father and son come to terms with growing up/old as they travel together in a Peterbilt truck one su … more →

Tags: Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King &am, Father & Son, 1st person, teen, Driving


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