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Prairie Dreams: Look Up, People!
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Musings from the Hippie Hohl Hacienda. Sunday, October 26, 2014. Look Up, People! Blackbirds in the Cottonwoods. Look Up, People. Trudging from car to store. Through the super-size parking lot,. With their lists of things they hope. Will make their lives. Thinking of anything but. While over their heads. A ribbon of a thousand joyful starlings. Perform a precision ballet. Diving, spinning, swirling. Against a fiery Autumn sunset. 169; Anita Hohl 2014. October 27, 2014 at 1:09 PM. Yep, it's me.
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The writing on the wall: When the world out there wants an explanation...
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Monday, July 11, 2011. When the world out there wants an explanation. And I know that if I tell Gabriel something, more than likely I will have to repeat it, maybe three, maybe five, maybe ten times, because he didn't understand what I said in the first place or because he has forgotten what I said 30 minutes later. That's just how it is. There is no need for explanations. Sometimes I'd like to tell the world out there to mind their own bizwhacks.
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The writing on the wall: July 2011
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Monday, July 11, 2011. When the world out there wants an explanation. And I know that if I tell Gabriel something, more than likely I will have to repeat it, maybe three, maybe five, maybe ten times, because he didn't understand what I said in the first place or because he has forgotten what I said 30 minutes later. That's just how it is. There is no need for explanations. Sometimes I'd like to tell the world out there to mind their own bizwhacks.
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The writing on the wall: October 2011
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Sunday, October 09, 2011. On this day, 120 years ago, my grandmother, Anna Barthel Adams, was born in Muskogee, Indian Territory to Frank Barthel and Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Kerr. Molly died when Anna was only 10 years old. Virtually a single parent, Anna had to support her two daughters in a time when opportunities were scarce for women. She began teaching in a little two-room country school, Sally Brown School, when she didn't even have a high school di...
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The writing on the wall: October 2010
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Thursday, October 28, 2010. Coffee with my hero. Today the boys and I had coffee with a woman who is a personal hero of mine. Her name is Debora and, like me, she is a pediatric occupational therapist. In 1981, she began treating a set of one year old twins.my future son Marcus and his twin brother. I emailed her and we planned to meet. So today we met at a little coffee shop at SLU. This was the first time Debora and Marcus had seen each other since Mar...
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The writing on the wall: January 2011
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Sunday, January 23, 2011. Most of the time the pain is a dull ache, but sometimes it pierces my heart. One of those piercing moments occurs almost every week. Most young adults mark time by referring to their age or what grade they were in when something happened. For example, "Boyz II Men was my favorite group when I was in 8th grade," or "Remember when I was 13 and we went to Padre Island? Saturday, January 15, 2011. Labels: Martin Luther King. This, my fr...
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The writing on the wall: July 2012
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Thoughts on the Aurora shooter. Naturally my thoughts turned to Gabriel. As I mentioned before, he would never have the cognitive skills nor the motivation to complete such a complex plan. When he is actively psychotic, he is so nonfunctional that he can't even fix himself a sandwich or put his shoes on or answer the simplest question. And "Die, bitch! BLOOM - Parenting Kids With Disabilities. St Louis Daily Photo. A Porch of My Own.
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The writing on the wall: December 2010
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The writing on the wall. Welcome, new readers! Tuesday, December 28, 2010. A few years ago, I was considering moving Tevis out of the group home and back home with us. Over the years, his explosive, aggressive behavior had decreased, and I thought that it might work. When I had a meeting with the owner of the group home company and some other staff people, I was taken aback at their negative reaction to the idea. One of them said,. It's not normal for someone Tevis' age to move back home with his parents.
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