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Things Adrienne & Dean Do, Think and Write

Browsing Posts published in June, 2009

To Adrienne, Commonplace, yet extraordinary.Undetectable, but never in doubt.Corinthians 13, though never cliché.Vast, while intimately close.Deeply familiar and still uncharted.Unquestioning, despite all I ask of it.All things, though nothing without you. Love,Dean

So once again, despite the sleeping pills and the amitriptyline and an active day, my phantom uterus has decided I don’t need to sleep. Sounds like a good time for story telling, huh? My endometriosis returned in June, 2008…a scant 6 months after extensive laparoscopic surgery to correct the problem. New town, new state, new [...]

Recently I struck upon two principles that, I hope, will guide my decisions. Nothing in life is maintenance-free. Seems simple. However it is also simple to settle into routine and take things for granted. My car needs periodic work, as does my house and health, but less obvious to me are relationships and knowledge base. [...]

Last September, a day after Hurricane Ike demolished Galveston, I brewed a great rye beer I called Rye of the Hurricane. It was about 20% rye, 5% munich and 75% pale bittered with Mt Hood & Hallertauer hops. The beer came out with a great dry earthy bitterness from the rye and Mt Hood. Five [...]