Here we are again after 4:00 in the morning and I’m still wide awake, but I think I’m getting used to it. I don’t feel tired the next day and I usually sleep pretty well the next night, so I guess it’s just another part of the new normal developing while I’m on this immunotherapy regimen for the next five months. The positive side of this is that I finally have time to write, something I haven’t set aside regular time for in about three years.
Pondering Pops
20230511 – Where Do I Go from Here?
Well, here I am, in the wee small hours of the morning, about 4:15 AM, in the middle of my current bout with what I call dexsomnia, a steroid induced insomnia that I deal with weekly for about 36 hours, as a part of my current cancer treatment regimen three and a half months after my diagnosis. And I’m wondering, … Continue reading →
20230129 – An Answer
Friday, January 27, 2023, was the day. After four months of lab work and tests and scans and doctor visits I might finally get an answer for the low blood counts and other anomalies that showed up in my semiannual blood test in September. So, we sat and waited in the exam room for the doctor to step in. An … Continue reading →
20220826 – Committing to a New Path
This week I finally jumped into retirement with both feet. I guess I’ll have to explain that one.
Continue reading →20210830 – Choices, Have I Become That Person?
I wrote these words a year ago, after we had suffered a pandemic for eighteen months, and were facing an uncertain future with a terrible disease whose death toll was approaching a million of our own citizens. I couldn’t bring myself to share them back then. Why share them now? Because I want to be open and honest, to not … Continue reading →
20200701-2 – Through It All
“The first verse of this song says it all for me. “Reading ‘Living on the Ragged Edge’ by Charles R. Swindoll I came to this song, read it and stopped, then reread it and continued to reread it. It summed it all up for me. “Please grant my request to use it so family and friends know and, hopefully, understand … Continue reading →
20210301 BNSF Update 1 – A Catch Update
We’re beginning on my Texas railroad just like my Michigan railroad, with a “catch”-update! This railroad started because I wanted to share the hobby with my grandson. He saw my trains when he visited us in Michigan, and he really seemed engaged. When my son-in-law asked about getting him his own train set I encouraged it. He found a small … Continue reading →
20210301 AWRY Update 1 – A Catch-Update
We really need to start at the beginning of the Arcadia Creek story, at least this new era that began in 2014. So I thought maybe we could use one, or a few, “catch”- updates! All aboard! To get where we are today, I had to start model railroading again from scratch. I was re-entering the hobby after more than … Continue reading →