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This is where I spend a lot of time, my desk in the craft room: The bay window lets in the afternoon sun and my IKEA desk matches the shape of the window, we stained it together in the new garage.  Still a novelty that, we have a garage and

UK NHS healthcare has been in the news a lot recently: potential new computer-based insomnia treatment, a horrible lack of domiciliary care and patient horror stories in response, online therapy for depression, and the use of continuous deep sedation as a possible alternative to illegal euthanasia.  The insomnia article and

August 5th is our 14th wedding anniversary!  Paul proposed exactly six months after the first date, and we got married exactly one year after that. I love you Hubby.

Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens.  There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in. We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day.  We got to

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis.  Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave.  BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day.  Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area.  We recognised three people from our citizenship test.  A court official got us