Category: General

A serious question.

I am currently unable to decide on what I would like to do next. In may I will finish my undergraduate education and have a BA in history. (Yes, stupid decision, I know) While I plan on going to graduate school, whether to start in the autumn of next year or to postpone it by a year in order to work is yet undecided. I’ve completed one application for a master’s of science in the teaching of history in the Midwest at a well-liked, respectable university. I’ve also put in with New Zealand to possibly spend some time living/working there.  What do you think?

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

Well the waiting is over.

Death always seems to visit me in threes and this is the third time in a lifetime it has happened.  It begins to get quite spooky, just sitting waiting so to speak for the bad news to come in.

First Toc, then one of my friend’s husband and now my hospice patient.  To be fair they were all getting on, I still rather think that any more than the allotted three score and ten are living on borrowed time . But then I rather like the biblical dramatic approach to death, stuff the green non funereal celebration of life routine.

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