Category: Family
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Once Upon a Michigan Christmas
When I was very young, my dad worked for a small, rural hospital in a town in the middle of Michigan. I loved going to visit where he worked. My dad looked so cool in his white coat, and I could tell from the way everyone treated us that he was well-respected and liked. I… Read more
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What an Adventure!
It’s an old memory. So faint that I can’t help but wonder how much of it has been filled in to make sense of a childhood fragment. The memory is just my mom and I outside a gas station. I can’t be more than a couple years old. A thunderstorm breaks over our heads in… Read more
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A Victory
It has been a whirlwind here the last several days. In my last entry, I wrote about the obstacles we have been facing. We are more or less mended from Covid, and A (our son) is no longer banished to a van in a parking lot in the United States. During our bout with Covid,… Read more
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What brought us to Scotland?
When Marga and I visited Scotland for the first time in 2017, we had no idea that just five years later we would be house hunting in the glens and around the lochs. We had found some cheap tickets and used our recent discovery of one-bag travelling to celebrate our anniversary by spending a week… Read more
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Obstacles
The actual move over the past week has presented a new series of obstacles. First if all, our second daughter, E, is not with us. Something happened with her visa and passport, and according to the shipping label, it hasn’t even left the offices. Marga has been calling every day, distraught and frustrated, trying to… Read more