Blessed Mother
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Krakow: The Pope and the Holocaust; I Am Proudly & Humbly Connected to Both*
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Mom died from leukemia way back in 1961. She had just turned 40 and, at the time, there were no cures, no chemo and no bone-marrow transplants. She was dead within six months of diagnosis. We lived in the Bronx in a five floor walk-up. Grandma lived up…
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I LOVE Christmas—No Matter What
IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson Turkey Day is over and now the 2015 Christmas odyssey is underway. My personal pilgrimage began Sunday at 5 AM, as I prepared my wife’s medications for the week. There are fourteen different pills she takes at different times during the day for varied reasons and I…
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Celebrating Our First Alzheimer's Christmas Together; Laughter Allowed
IT MAKES SENSE TO MEby Larry Peterson I guess the first time I realized that something was really wrong was about a year and a half ago. I have a bedroom I turned into an office and I was sitting at the keyboard clicking away. I sensed someone behind me and turned to see my…
Cradling Catholic 