It's been a few weeks since my last Tuesday blog and I've missed my time to unwind and get my thoughts out. Things are always busy this time of year with the start of school, getting everyone's schedules settled and synched with the school calendar, and the start of many ...

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My mother is a courageous and resilient woman. Characteristics she inherited from her mother, who, as a young war widow of a captain in the merchant marine, raised my mother and her sister with lots of love and steely determination. My mother never knew her father, who was killed when ...

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