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• One Week Left

  by Ann Teve January 4, 2012
  I have an exam on Friday. It's Philosophy, "Questions of the Day". I'm hopeful that I will do well. I should have written the exam before Christmas but I came down with the flu, hence I'm writing on Friday. I think I'll do well but i am a bit distracted. it's hard to concentrate on the words of Thom...
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• ... 31 days and counting

  by Ann Teve December 10, 2011
  As I write, there is a beautiful, bright, cold Canadian winter day beyond the window. I'm all set at my computer for some work but before I start, I just have to write and tell you – friends who might remember me, and others here – my good news. On January 11, I fully start a new life as...
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• Long Ago; Far Away

  by Ann Teve April 28, 2011
  Will anyone recall me? Really, it's been so long since I last posted. So much has happened.    I last wrote in the fall of 2009 and it's now the spring of 2011. I am almost a different person.   Perhaps the best news I can offer is that I have finally threaded the needle of transi...
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• Acceptance and Questions

  by Ann Teve November 2, 2009
  It is just over a month since mother passed away. It has been tumultuous. I finally surfaced from my retreat and had coffee with a friend."You're such a drama queen." she allowed over her lunch, "Well, I suppose not so much drama queen as having a lot of drama in your life." And ...

• And So It is Done

  by Ann Teve September 30, 2009
  It was just after 9:00 am on Monday, September 21st 2009 that mother passed away. It was exactly one month from the day that I acted to fulfill her final wish and brought her home. It was three months since I'd had known that her time was near, nine months since I knew that she was even ill and ne...

• Back

  by Ann Teve August 2, 2009
  Wow, I absolutely can't believe that my last blog was in February. A lot has happened since then. The biggest news, without doubt, is that my mother is terminally ill. She has, according to the doctors, only about two to three months left. It is so very difficult to believe this as she is the pict...

• The Place I Used to Stand

  by Ann Teve February 24, 2009
  I didn't get the job. There was a moment were I feld sure that I would and another when I felt it couldn't happen. It didn't. They did call, however, foolishly I thought to ask for another interview. They would be looking at someone else. Surprisingly, I didn't cry. Not right away.My hours at Lee Va...

• Hello Again

  by Ann Teve January 25, 2009
  I'm astonished that its been nearly two months since my last entry. I enter this new year -- 2009 -- as Ann. This will be my first full year. Few days pass that I don't think of something of interest to the group here and equally there isn't a day that I can't get to the library to post it. Here ...

• Bits and bites

  by Ann Teve November 17, 2008
  Evening at the grocery. I was on my way home. I'd stopped for a few items as I often do. The Gala apples looked good but I was tending toward the Macintosh. In the middle of my consideration, I heard heels clicking resolutely toward me on the tiles behind. A tall well-dressed blonde passed me, g...

• Bits and Bites

  by Ann Teve October 29, 2008
  I was coffee, muffin, soft drink and purse in hand as I walked up the sidewalk to my car. It had snowed this morning -- a couple of inches -- and I was going slowly. I was expecting to drop something. A construction worker brushed past me, walking briskly up ahead. He stopped, he paused, he turned...