Monthly Archives: July 2018

I don’t remember the day I was born. I’m pretty sure that my Mom always did, as well as the months leading up to it. It’s kind of strange to think that I was alive before I was born. We don’t celebrate our first birthday when we’ve been out of the womb for three months, even though we were alive for nine months before that. I guess the key phrase is “birthday”. At birth, there is no physical change in…..

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My husband and I recently climbed a mountain. (That looks so impressive in print!) Yes, we really did climb all 700 feet of it, in one mile, mostly straight up. Actually, we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into when we started and we had only a vague idea of what we hoped to gain. The gentle path we started on was soon surpassed by sharp inclines and eventually steep face-rock. For the record, I did want to make…..

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