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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
About Me
Blogs I Like to Read
- Amy's Very Cool Homeschooling Family
- Ann Douglas
- Blogging Baby
- David Rhoden
- Domestic Psychology
- First Impressionist
- Jonathan Hickman
- Lemuria Books
- Mamas Ink
- Marrit Ingman
- Martini Made
- Meagan Francis
- Mo's Journal
- Remembering Ward
- Suburban Turmoil
- The Vol Abroad
- This Woman's Work
- Women's Health News
- Zygote Daddy
Good Stuff on Being a Parent/Family Life
Books I"ve written/contributed to
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- current reading
- my 15 year old son to me this morning
- caitlin flanagan
- harvey milk civil rights academy
- the tree
- breastfeeding mothers to busybodies who complain: ...
- gonna go give my babies one last hug tonight
- man, wear not these shoes
- a parent's christmas morning nightmare
- ROTN
- the virtues of hypocrisy
- my christmas wish list - in progress (it's WISHES....
- in the wake
- unitarianism
- success!
- starting to get house decorated for christmas
- christmas lights
- i love bungalows
- the paint job
- be thankful
- current listening
- taking things for granted
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- gotta love east tennessee
- i like this photo
- my neighborhood
- more love story
- get me this for christmas, please
- food for thought (and related to my spanking post,...
- "spanking" = domestic violence
- what's everyone doing for thanksgiving?
- happier
- one great photo!
- emmy
- remembering
- what not to say
- she has died
- happy anniversary tim and susan lee
- telling students they belong in hell
- old boyfriends
- very sad news
- home tour
- no subscription for me, thanks
- today i am wearing....
- cool site for dads (with dumb name)
- single parenting in the rearview mirror
- K-Fed(Ex) Leaves Sweet Message for Britney
- breastfeeding mother KICKED OFF AIRPLANE!
- walter reed on house
- savage on santorum
- from the wedding
- belly shots
- fake estate
- aliens, sans zippers
- dysfunctional family letter generator
- tonight! tonight! tonight!
- FLOR flooring
- peter, bjorn & john
- ecognosis
- divorce is hell
- purity ball video
- handcuffs & stuff
- the crane wife
- is it real or is it photoshop?
- Ward's Website
- boy babe in suburban turmoil-land
- k-fed dumped via text message
- elliot and football
- ferber and teenagers
- gone
- more sappy newlywed mushiness
- 867-5309
- everything can change really fast
- on the job
- bono has a credibility problem
- jon's blog
- jesus was not a republican
- infertility blogs, and various other random thoughts
- political persuasions inherited?
- gay evangelical hypocrite
- the week from hell...
- baby stories
- listening this morning
- laid up
- ward's lobster
- not simple
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18 comments:
Did she have a brain tumor? What happened? I scrolled and scrolled and scanned and scanned but could not locate the cause of her illness.
So many prayers going out to this family- I hope they feel all the care and concern. And find peace in their memories soon.
http://www.atomictumor.com/page/11/
Look for the Nov. post
"Its been a loooong day "
I don't think anybody knows what was wrong with her. It wasn't a brain tumor. They thought it was the flu, then they thought it was some kind of infection. Ultimately, a 29-year-old woman just died of a stroke and nobody knows why. And a month ago, no one could've seen it coming.
It's horrible beyond words.
The spirit of the man writing the blogs is so amazing, I am crying. I never heard of this blog until just now. This is so incredibly sad, yet the writer's spirit is so beautiful.
There was some speculations that the massive infection might have arisen from a tooth abscess she had a few weeks ago. Unbelievable that someone so young could go from healthy to dead so quickly.
I want to do something for them. Just words doesn't feel like enough. I can see why they don't want to post a real name or an address. Jon, do you know them IRL?
You know, I've been sitting here shaking my head for over an hour. Reading Jake's blog has made me feel in awe of that kind of love and devotion.
I can't believe this has turned out like this.
Leslie:
There's a link in the comment section of the page to the family's snail mail address.
Jon, do you know them IRL?
I've known them for about a year through our blogs. We started at the same time on the same server, etc. I've emailed with them and have meant several times to go see them in person but every time something came up.
It kills me that I didn't go see them the last time I meant to - about a month ago.
And as for the tooth, I think they decided that probably wasn't it. They also considered a kidney infection. But I don't think they really know what it was.
Incidentally, BJ's real name was Barbara Jamie Bearden Kilpatrick.
I know he must be having to make some tough decisions today - about organ donation and how that will be handled.
Maybe at least in the wake of this family's terrible loss, some other families around the country are going to get some amazingly hopeful news today.
My emotions are completely tangled. How can I become so attached to someone I never met? How can this man's love for his wife move me to tears? His spirit and longing for BJ to come back to him are too much to bare. What a beautiful tribute to this incredible woman. Is there anything we can do for the family?
If you want to help:
http://www.citizennetmom.com/?p=207
Oh, that is so horrible.
Just...horrible.
I asked specifically about a brain tumor because I almost lost my Ken to one in June 1997. I was lucky. He was lucky. We dodged a bullet, both because the fates were smiling upon us and we had one of the best neurosurgeons in the world work on Ken's brain.
And selfishly, I was hyperventilating at the "what could have been" aspect of the blog. Selfish and terrible, but man, having just experienced the possibility of losing your spouse, especially as a young person yourself (we were both 26), I can conceptualize what this poor man is thinking and feeling. And it's like a kick in the guts that brings tears to your eyes.
I guess it's stuff like this...it just wears on the soul, you know? Why are the good ones always taken, and why are they always taken so young?
And all of our hearts are broken, but not like AT.
I have no words.
Bring out the meat wagon!
Such a sad situation.My heart breaks for this family. JCB
It would be so great if some of you who know about book publishing could help him (when he is up to it) in getting all of this published into a book. Not for the celebrity, but because he is now a single father of two boys and could use the cabbage. Many times over the last few days and weeks of reading I have said to myself, "Is this for real?" I mean, it reads like the most beautiful love story. From what I can tell, Jake is hardly a "romance writer" kind of guy. Just publishing the blog entries as they are would make an amazing book.
Totally agreeing to that!!!!
It just breaks my heart the news of his beloved wife...my heart aches!
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