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It has been twenty-eight months since Adrienne’s hysterectomy. Last year I made a request to our friends to help us celebrate our post-infertility life. August 11th is this week and we still don’t have a name for I-had-my-uterus-and-ovaries-taken-at-32-so-I-will-never-have-children-of-my-own day (someone call Hallmark). At any rate, here’s what we are going to do on Thursday. Celebrate [...]
People are beginning to ask about our year-end podcast. I’m sad to say it isn’t done yet, but we should have it up around the first week of 2011.
At first I was going to detail how to make a friend list, put people in it and edit your privacy settings all in that little box. Instead you get a blog post with pretty images. An Allegory LinkedIn is the “social network” for your co-workers. I keep track of a lot of people there. [...]
This morning I heard a story about a large corporation and a judiciary both acting in favor of privacy over taxes. It warmed my cockles. As the recession continues states look for ways to fix budget shortfalls. Raising or enacting taxes is politically incendiary in an election year but one state saw a way to [...]
It has been sixteen months since Adrienne had a hysterectomy. Saying “we’ve been through a lot” is meaningless truth. Adie and I will never be parents. Ultimately the decision was ours, heavily influenced by cold biological facts. This blog is small catharsis, but its material is not for those with a weak emotional constitution. We [...]
I don’t remember the year we decided to try, 2003 probably. It was a New Year’s Eve, near the same hour of the night when I proposed to Adrienne. I still remember the thrill of intentional unprotected sex. A mixture of excitement, apprehension, hope and orgasam. After that, the time between 2004 and 2010 was [...]
I heard reports of snow as far south as Denver. Fall is creeping down from the Great White North, but here in Texas Summer still weakly grasps for the Earth, holding ground against the inevitable season. Some mornings it gently rains, some afternoons the temperature climbs to 90°. Today we experienced both. The sun seems [...]
I was listening to a Motley Fool podcast yesterday where one of the commentators made a quippy remark that really resonated with me. To paraphrase: It is important to recognize when you are smart and when you are lucky. I feel as though I’ve led a charmed life. A loving wife, great family, interesting friends, [...]
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
