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Medical problems continue to challenge our family


Medical problems related to my wife’s heart continue to challenge — or “plague,” depending on your perspective, I guess — our family as summer starts to cool and wind down. I doubt the hot summer we’ve been having had much to do with it, but certainly it’s easier to face daily or weekly crises when [...]

Google can lead to ‘sort of’ a backwards time machine


Yes, I journeyed into the past yesterday. My wife came along. We used Google Maps — Street Level view. For three years in the early 1970s, we lived on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. We were back there to visit for the last time in about 1984, I think it was. Yesterday, [...]

Learning rules in nation filled with lawyers


My family and I have rarely needed to use a lawyer. My wife and I went to a lawyer who worked for the company where we worked when we created our wills. There was one occasion, probably 10-15 years ago, when we had to help a family friend find a lawyer. I was thinking about [...]