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3 months after the stroke
There’s still so many basic things that I can’t do. Hopefully things will return to normal soon … I live on that hope. We take so many things for granted when we’re healthy. I never knew that walking required so much coordination from the brain to the spine down to the toes. Dr. Guisado assured… Continue reading
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it’s time again to dye my hair
Every few months, I’m being reminded of my age when I look at the grey hair sprouting from the crown of my head. Not that my sweet and sensitive kids haven’t already regularly and explicitly reminded me of my position as the mother, and my age as being past the half-century mark. So it’s that… Continue reading
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I think I’m bored!
“There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is… Continue reading
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it snowed in Fremont!!!
i lied you not! It snowed! I now can proudly say that I live in snow country :). I had to make a quick run to the store this morning. The cleaner was here, and we ran out of oven cleaner. On the way back, heading towards the hills, I was in awe at the… Continue reading
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Torn between the 2 cultures
Sometimes I feel like giving up. I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m straddling between the old tradition that was bred and remained unconsciously brewing in me, and the new way of life I’ve intelligently embraced most of my mature life. I’m a hybrid trying to maintain the good cultural mileage while accelerating at… Continue reading
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French Toast
Recipe is copied from Food Network. I have so many recipes that I want to try out, but always lose the links. So I now need to resort to copy and paste recipes into my blog. I’ll make these one of these days, and post pix here. My baby Tina would surely love these. For… Continue reading
New Day: New Beginning 