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Time for Rest

Time for Rest

2016-05-23
By: Live by Surprise
On: May 23, 2016
In: Haiku, Inspiration, The Grandmother Diaries
With: 10 Comments

Well…the haikuhorizons prompt this week–“rest”–begged me to jump in.  Although it’s been a lovely and finally warm weekend, my mother’s family has, in the space of four days, lost two men still in the prime of their lives.  My mother’s cousin lost her (STBX) husband and the father of herContinue Reading

Dear Sweet Apollo – Rest In Peace

2014-09-10
By: Live by Surprise
On: September 10, 2014
In: Parenting
With: 1 Comment

Some of you may have read my tribute to Apollo in the spring and my struggles with how to prepare the children for his passing.  We had him put down this morning, it was very quite and peaceful.  I’m struggling and sad, and worried about Hubs and about how the childrenContinue Reading

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Lola's books

Doctor Who: The Forgotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2
Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 1
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
The Other Emily
Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums: A Guide for Family Historians
Memories of Tomorrow
The Mercy of Snakes
Red Rain
The Praying Mantis Bride
Photographing the Dead
In the Heart of the Fire
The Painted Girls
The Other Typist
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Great Shape Hunt, The
Zoe's First Book of Seasons
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey Issue #0


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