Alas, I didn’t get a dental implant today. That will happen down the road several months hence. After pulling the rest of the #8 tooth that broke off, the dentist discovered that I don’t have enough jawbone right now to hold an implant, so today he did a bone graft to prepare the area […]
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This is Dental Implant Week for me, as long as my recent bloodwork reveals I’m in good shape to have oral surgery. I’m waiting to find that out today. I have a call in to my PCP. (11:00 a.m. Update: I’m good to go for the oral surgery. My labs came back, no red flags
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TALL SHIP ADVENTURE POSTPONED Ahoy, mateys! The tall ship sail on Lady Washington, originally scheduled for this coming Wednesday, has been cancelled because the weather here in the Pacific NW decided to turn arctic again, so Lisa and I have postponed the adventure until later this year. We don’t have a date yet, so
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I’ve just read a fascinating book titled THE MONKEY IS THE MESSENGER: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind is Trying to Tell You by Ralph De La Rosa. I plan to read it again, right away, and highlight a lot of it. It confirmed a lot of what I’ve discovered personally as an amateur
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Lisa and I went to a thrift store in Puyallup this morning. I picked up a rehab tank with a screen top for $4.95 and on the way out was able to put it to immediate use. A young bird knocked itself out on the glass window front of the thrift store and fell to
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AHOY, MATEY! Lisa and I are scheduled for a two-hour “evening sail” on the Tall Ship Lady Washington out of Olympia soon. I bought the tickets today so we’re confirmed. They were only $39 for Lisa and $36 for me, so it was a deal we simply couldn’t pass up! We looked at
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I have been following Deborah King since last summer and the change from who I was when I closed my eyes at night back then, and who I am when I do the same thing now, has been nothing short of miraculous. Let me explain. As a Type A writer, I am always
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Goodness gracious sakes alive, this has NOT been a good week for some of my friends. I won’t mention their names because they’re staying anonymous at least until they’re released, but one is in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere so, as far as I’m concerned, this a global crisis.
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For every “downer” blog post I write (the last two have been relative downers), I intend to write two “upper” posts because I want my readers’ energies to vibrate at higher levels. Keeping our spirits up is the only way to make sure we remain proactive, working on the policies that uplift people, animals and
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It seems to me that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should remove himself from the Court or be impeached. His wife has been implicated in encouraging the insurrectionists in Trump’s thrall to overturn the legitimate election of Joe Biden. And he has refused to recuse himself from cases regarding the insurrection. Why is something not
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