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something to help with Alzheimer’s agitation
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Always go back to the Financial Aid department and ask for more aid.
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On the way between the beach and the mountains and back, we would stop at the old home place in TyTy, Georgia. Grandma and Grampa Williams’ big two-story frame house was always there waiting for us. They had an old, blind horse named Jake. Jake had been a fire horse until he went blind. His
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Friday is the big day. She is moving into the freshman dorm to begin her first year at college. There is great excitement all around. It has been a crazy year. 2020. The year of the Corona Virus and the disease Covid-19. She finally had her graduation – outside – bring your own chairs and
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The subject of dorm room supplies deserves a long ramble. I have a massive spreadsheet of college supplies that we are working through. We probably overdo it. I will work on cleaning up our list and making it generic and see if I can post it here. Meanwhile I will talk off the top of
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Oh, friends, my heart aches for you who are reeling from the cost of college. I think there is so much misinformation out there, and too many people assume that financial aid will take care of them at the college of their choice. We need to talk about this before you make your list of
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We were living in Charlotte, North Carolina, the year that I turned six. Six was a big deal, because you got to go to school. But I didn’t turn six until mid-October. If we had been in Georgia, I would have started school in September, but in North Carolina you couldn’t start school until you
One brisk October day, Mamma headed across the yard towards the outhouse. About halfway there, she realized that was not her need. She made a turn and headed across the street, calling, “Uncle Doctor!” Daddy’s sister, Aunt Martha, was married to Dr. Franklin Pickett. He was the main doctor in our little town, and lived
Today is the day! It is January 10, and I am moving my parents from Georgia, in the sunny South, where they have lived for most of their lives, to Iowa, where it is 10 degrees today. The moving truck left yesterday with most of what is left of their belongings, and today we fly.
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