Author Archives: Carrie

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Last night I finished reading a book I had just started 48 hours before — it had me enthralled from the first page. Books usually don’t make me cry but this one did, so I’m sitting in the living room, looking at the last page of the book and just blubbering. Steven walks in to […]

if I only had a brain

I was at the doctor’s office again this afternoon, talking with my physician about different options we can take on dealing with my crazy headaches. I’ve been trying to tackle the headache problem for some six years now, and this is the first doctor that is making the effort to truly locate the cause. We’ve […]

thoughts of language

Have you ever tried to hear English without actually understanding it? If one has spoken English all their life, it is very hard to do. When you hear someone speaking French you can usually tell it is so without understanding what the person is saying. It is the same thing with recognizing German, Spanish, Russian, […]

confusion

I’m sure most of you have heard about the craziness that happened in London again yesterday, and I am truly thankful that no civilians were hurt. However, I read something on the BBC News site this morning that has me absolutely dumbfounded. Apparently, the British police shot dead one of the suspected perpetrators yesterday after […]

feeling down in the mouth

Sometime last December I finally quit procrastinating and went for my semi-annual teeth cleaning fest. I was delaying the visit because I had no dental insurance at the time but I finally decided the health of my teeth was worth a cool hundred and some-odd dollars. Also, I figured that if one’s teeth hurt every […]