[organizing notes / elder home clear out / overwhelm] I thought it might be helpful to review how I approached clearing out my in-laws’ condo last weekend. Talking to Kevin about it, he mentioned that when he’d first started working on it, it seemed like everything he did just created more mess and chaos. That’s […]
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We had a school board retreat with an ISBE rep. yesterday, which meant that she was asking us various questions about our recent self-evaluation and inviting us to reflect further on them, and I wasn’t saying anything, and about ten minutes in, she was trying to get people who hadn’t spoken much to talk more,
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My mother-in-law passed away last night. This is my favorite picture of Ann, in a shade of blue that suits her so well, dancing merrily with one of Kevin’s colleagues at our 25th anniversary party. I made everyone try English country dancing, and she took to it enthusiastically. Ann was a wonderful mother-in-law. I’ll post
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We’re in Los Gatos now, for Kevin’s mother’s birthday. This is a pic of her retirement complex where we’re staying — it’s pretty. Lots of flowers. It’s a sad, hard birthday — Ann’s in hospice, and not doing well. We’re currently scheduled to leave on Monday morning, getting the kids back to Chicago to get
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