constructive forces
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Reddish, rusty cinder cone dislodged from the top of Sunset Crater sometime late in its last eruption.
It's all a matter of perspective. Sometimes ...
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passed
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
The time is gone when any of my children will spontaneously give me a hug or kiss, so I give them both to make up for it.
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instead
by
Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Sunset at Little America, Flagstaff
Somehow all of December passed without a word written here, so again, I resort to an omnibus sort of post, trying ...
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lessons
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Things I learned this week -- from my 2nd science fair, and from Thanksgiving -- that I'm writing down so I won't forget.
Science Fair first, since it was s ...
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no more jack-o-lanterns
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
This is the first year in all the years we've lived in this house, I think -- 13 years -- that we haven't carved pumpkins. It was always my job to rustle up s ...
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pilfering trifles
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Today I discovered the latest in an ongoing series of minor thefts from my classroom: the toy cars I'd bought last year for the 8th graders to use in our physi ...
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Q2
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Tomorrow begins the second quarter of school, already... fall break was just a week but seemed like more.
DD & I flew into Boston for a quick trip out to s ...
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round peg, square hole
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
I cleaned up some graffiti in a girls' bathroom at work today, and now it seems as if I may catch flak for it.
The question keeps arising: what am I doing t ...
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being a philosopher...
by
Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
... I have a problem for every solution.
That's one of the quotes I heard -- the topic for an Impromptu speech -- at the speech & debate festival I attended ...
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today & tomorrow
by
Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
It's the sixth week of school, and some days are heaven and some are... more like today. Today was one of those days when, in a less-than-ideal situation, you ...
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here lies the difficulty
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
I'm finally on antibiotics to rid myself of nasty little sinus infection, but that's not the problem. And I'm on a regular dose of NSAIDS to help calm the (li ...
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4 weeks to go
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
It's May, suddenly -- and I'm just about through with my first year teaching full-time. I would have to write a book about it to avoid understatement, but I'l ...
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slogging through
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Very, very busy -- so busy we still (still!) haven't sent out the Happy New Year cards we had made up, since we were so busy we missed the window for sending o ...
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whoa
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
mid-November -- how did we get here?
Anything I say will sound like whining, even if it's meant to be a simple factual statement of what's going on. So, br ...
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flow
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Last week was the seventh week of the school year. It amazes me that much time has gone by already -- much of it was a blur. But it was a turning-the-corner ...
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Living with Thyroid Cancer
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Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
So, in addition to teaching full time now (!), volunteering in my church's religious ed dept, and co-facilitating a monthly thyroid cancer support meeting, I ...
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summer's gone
by
Joan H.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Poof! It's over, faster than I could have believed -- I have a job (!!!) and it starts tomorrow. So, before I forget it all, here's the recap of vacation th ...
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