Mmoirai

Well my friends, it is done.  I have just posted the 20th and final chapter of "One Life".  I think I need a glass of wine.

Hello my friends.  It has been a while. I have been kind of reclusive since Blue died, but I find that I am beginning to feel a little better as Autumn peels away the heavy heat of the hot dry summer. My husband and I have bought a house and just closed two weeks ago.  It was strange to leave the little apartment we had been living in for 7 years.  We were roomates there, went to college, dated, fell in love, and made a home in that little space.  But that chapter is over and it is time to turn the page and continue the story anew. I'm applying for a promotion at work as well.  I feel like I have done nothing but eat, sleep, and speak 'wor

I had to make the decision to put my Blue Boy to sleep on Thursday, 4.24.08.  I don't quite know how to feel, or how to...not feel. He was shivering when I got to the vet's office.  They had been giving him a constant IV drip to hydrate him for a dental procedure when they discovered that the problem wasn't dental, but a tumor in his jaw.  Anyway, the IV fluids were making him shiver. I pulled him close and he curled up in my arms and promptly went to sleep, slowly warming, and the shivers subsiding.  At his throat, the fluttering signal of his purr could be felt at a touch. An hour later, it was time.  And so he went to sleep swiftly, pea