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Visiting the Doctor’s Office Reveals Life with Universal Healthcare
Here I am waiting at the doctor’s office in Norway. I’m one of those people who gets sick on vacation a lot. In Bermuda, I plied myself with enough alcohol to keep the germs at bay.
This time, I wasn’t so lucky. I’ll spare you the goopy details, but put it like this: I have an “upper respiratory infection.”
Anyway, I’m here in this quiet doctor’s office. There’s no music, no television in the waiting room. That’s the thing about public places in Norway, they’re … Read more ...
Wordless Wednesday: A View of The Woods, My Norwegian Escape
Our cabin in the Norwegian forest.
Hubby’s family owns a quaint cabin in the forest and here’s a look from the dock.… Read more ...
Celebrating MLK Day in the Comfort of My Own Home
The morning of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I began to wonder what we could do to celebrate the slain civil rights activist.
So I did what I always do when I have a question. I went to Google. After finding no kid-friendly events in the surrounding area, I saw that the library was scheduled to have their storybook time for toddlers. That’s where someone on staff reads a few books to a room full of tots and often adds a song or two.… Read more ...
Build A Better Mousetrap: Finding Time to Make It Happen
I think there needs to be a way to teleport what I’m thinking right on to my blog. Now bear with me, I’m not blogging while drunk, nor have I gone off my meds.
There’s so many posts I want to write, so many things I want to say, but when it comes time in the evening when I’m done cooking, cleaning, calling, carpooling and coddling, I’m spent. I’ve got some posts mostly written though. There’s tales from the waning days of 2011. Half-written yarns … Read more ...