I talked to Karen a week before she passed.  She had long covid, which had forced her to retire, had taken away her ability to read anything of length, and left her on oxygen and bed ridden. She fell going to or from the bathroom, and was found after a couple days when her former wife had called for a wellness check. i remember her in better times, when she wore my ring. 

The last time i saw Phil he was under a hundred pounds, had food in front of him cancer had left him uninterested in eating. He was half deaf, in obvious pain, and told me I'd probably never see him again.  He was right.  He died two days later. 

Fuck Cancer

Rusty was passed out in his hospital bed, with his glasses and the Browns game on.  He'd gone in for cancer surgery and afterword they discovered his heart was shot. He needs a heart transplant, only to be eligible you need to be cancer-free for two years, as spare hearts are too

A techbro is a bro who is into tech. That is the simple definition, but the development of both the term and the phenomena is vague. According to UrbanDictonary, the term was already recorded in 2013 (by an extreme coincidence, three days after my writeup for "bro" on here), but it had already been developing for years, and the development of the "bro" was necessary for the development of the techbro.

First, a little bit of history: there was a time when "geek" and "jock" were

We used her grandparents' rings
and my sister's house.

I found it charming for a couple years afterwards
to think we were married
at home:

She was there
that was home.

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He was born in a
hospital toilet in Spring. That year he would
have seen the poppies bloom.

The nurses said
good job. They scrubbed and dressed him
before handing him to