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all things bloggity

people that help are so important. especially if they’re helping you do really hard stuff. like yoga. and making bread.

on April 13, 2010 in all things bloggity

Tweet I’ve seen a lot of fun people.  People have come to help me ace rehab and learn to be a full person again. But they have each brought something different to the game. There’s been someone who puts her hand in my face and shoves. There’s been two someones full of good tales and [...]

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some things suck. some things suck beyond all human understanding and belief. this is one of those things.

on April 6, 2010 in all things bloggity

Tweet I want it to be not fair.  I want people to feel bad for this body. I want for everyone to understand how much it sucks to have a functioning system, then to wake up with half not working. It sucks. It really does. But at least I have half. One arm is the [...]

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Thank you

on November 20, 2009 in all things bloggity

Tweet Thank you all for the kind words of encouragement. Going forward, all further updates on my wife’s progress will be at www.hope4peyton.org –Peter

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I can be beautiful for my daughter

on November 6, 2009 in Things I do to my kids

Tweet I need to learn to love my body. I’ve had this body for thirty-five years and it’s never fully made me happy. The shoulders are too broad. The hips are too narrow. The belly is too squishy. The feet are too wide. The legs are too short. The chins are too many. And I [...]

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As if you have better things to do!

on October 15, 2009 in Aiming Low

Tweet Parties used to be fun because all it took was a keg, a few bags of chips and the right people to have a good time. The beer may be better quality and we may have traded in the chips for real food, but it’s still about having the right people to have a [...]

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Did you know golf cart paths are really quite wide?

on October 9, 2009 in Aiming Low

Tweet Thelma and Louise. Smokey and the Bandit. Easy Rider. Great examples of the roadtrip movie. I have one too! Starring Heather from the Spohrs Are Multiplying, Angie from A Whole Lot of Nothing and Janet from IzzyMom…Aiming Low at it’s finest. There aren’t any hallucinogenic drugs.  We didn’t get chased by cops.  Nope.  We [...]

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