Category: family
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Maria J. Jensen Memorial Scholarship
Our family is proud to announce the creation of the Maria J. Jensen Memorial Scholarship at Waukesha County Technical College. The scholarship honors Maria’s enthusiasm for learning, her dedication to success, and her wish to inspire other women to improve themselves through education, no matter what stage of life they are in. Women over the […]
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The Long Goodbye
Four years ago, I sat in a small doctor’s office in North Phoenix and listened as my mother’s pulmonologist explained to my mother why she was coming down with a persistent cold every few weeks. “Unfortunately, it is cancer,” she said. Although she was not a cancer specialist, she estimated my mother was at stage […]
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Have Scion, Will Travel
I’m smack in the middle of a long roadtrip. This week I’m visiting family in Detroit and in a few days I’ll be back in DC. So far, I’ve put 1700 miles on my car. That’s almost as far as it was when I moved from Phoenix to DC. Beau and I drove overnight from […]
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Finding Fiction
I made a quick trip back to Phoenix to spend time with my family on Mother’s Day (some of you know my mom has been fighting an illness for the past few years, so these things have become more important) and had a fantastic time with everyone. While it makes me homesick to exist so […]
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Tourism Begins at Home
I was mostly away from blogs this weekend while I entertained my father, who came to visit me for a few days. He hadn’t been to DC since the 50s, so on our agenda was doing a smidge of the monument thing. He especially wanted to see the Vietnam Memorial, having been a hair’s breath […]
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