Loose Strife

This video is a mash-up of an excerpt from Carl Sagan and various iconic movie imagery. It somehow struck me as particularly poignant right now. Here’s to the new year! http://media.dizz.org/palebluedot.mov

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We had a very nice christmas this year without incident. (Well, let’s not dwell on the unfortunate flair up when I lost my cool after Lily turned her nose up at my christmas dinner.) The day was very easy going and the kids were adorable. I’ll post some pics and video later. Laura had her […]

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Another installment of the Ashfield patrol log: Dec 12 – 2:20pm – Report residential propane leak, March Rd. Determined to be stink bomb, located inside pant pocket that went through dryer.

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Not much to share, but I’m wide awake. Long before Laura’s diagnosis I fell into a bad pattern. About the time I put the kids to bed I’m ready to collapse and I often fall asleep while reading stories, much to Lily and Naomi’s frustration. But they poke me and I read another line or […]

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It’s been a winter wonderland around here over the past few weeks. Locals say that this is the sort of weather usually reserved for January or February. There’s currently 16 inches on the ground with some drifts around the barn much deeper. Low temperatures have been in the single digits and we had wind gusts […]

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Amid our first big snow storm of the season, the kids and I drove down the mountain and back this afternoon to pick up Laura from the hospital. Laura’s looking and feeling better. Her migraines have moderated both in frequency and severity. (She says the one that made her lose her cookies this morning was […]

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A quick update for Wednesday. Laura will stay at least another night — which is actually good news. The GI endoscopy found nothing remarkable, as expected. But the coordinating doc doesn’t want to let her go, because the headaches aren’t under control, yet. They’re modifying some meds and also taking her off her current narcotic […]

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Laura spent a second day in the hospital and it was slow, but good. Several friends stopped by. Thanks for that. And thank you so much to the friends who have been watching Naomi and Lily for the past 48 hours! The hospital was so busy that Laura waited much of today for an endoscopy […]

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Not much to report. Laura is at Cooley-Dickinson hospital in Northampton. She’s just fine right now. I’ve been keeping a record of the time, duration, and intensity of her headaches. Every hour or two, for 5 to 10 minutes, pain between 6 and 10. (Everywhere in the hospital is displayed a row of faces — […]

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Laura’s been having debilitating, painful headaches that probably aren’t migraines. The most intense ones end in her vomiting. Last night during such a severe bout she became dizzy and fell. I took her to the ER and we’re in the hospital now. Not sure what will come of it. At first they were just going […]

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