Posted: May 11, 2022
I still like to run. So, every now and then I will sign up to run a race. It’s usually only a 5K. During Tulip Time in our town, there is a Tulip Time Run. I signed up, I ran, and I took first place in my division. Yes, there were more runners than just
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Posted: March 28, 2022
It’s fun to be a fly on the wall at the community swimming pool. Children are the hotbed for understanding human nature at its rawest. They start with a friendly game of Marco Polo. Then move on to a challenge for who can hold their breath for the most seconds, or swim the longest distance,
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Posted: February 18, 2022
The best one-liner that I heard over the holidays came from Virginia Madden, the wife of the late football great who died just three days after an emotional documentary on his life aired on Christmas Day. She said, “I don’t know what goes on in a man’s mind.” For the women who are reading this,
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Posted: January 24, 2022
I am doing an experiment I have long been a fan of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages. If you are familiar with it, he shares five languages through which each of us feels loved. By understanding this about your spouse, your children, your parents, and any relationship you want to grow and develop, and
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Posted: January 20, 2022
A person who has someone by his side when a cancer diagnosis is relayed can count himself lucky. It is not always evident but when a thunderbolt hits from out of the blue, one needs all the support one can get. Some cancer patients try to outwardly show calm and courage even when they are
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Posted: January 14, 2022
What I know for sure is that everyone needs a support system. In Daniel 10:7 we read in the Message translation, “the men who were with me…were overcome with fear and ran off and hid, fearing the worst. Left alone after the appearance, abandoned by my friends, I went weak in the knees, the blood
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Posted: January 10, 2022
Cancer is devastating. It is life-changing. When a couple is presented with confirmation of a cancer diagnosis by a well-meaning physician, it usually marks a shift in their relationship or the beginning of a new one-whether for the worst or the best. The shock, fear, doubt, disbelief, and denials can drive a relationship over a
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Posted: November 17, 2021
November is National Family Caregivers Month, and I have yet to see one commercial or one announcement that says, “hug your caregiver and celebrate their efforts.” So, I will make my own announcement here in hopes that those who read this will pass it on and encourage any caregiver who tirelessly gives of themselves for
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By asiadmin
Posted: August 12, 2021
I dedicated this book to my sister Monica Morris. She embodies the word caregiver. She is a nurse. She was married to a doctor. A doctor who was revered by his patients. When Edward (her husband) exhibited more and more of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, she said to me one day, “I have come
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Tags: author, cancer, cancer inspiration, caregiver, head and neck cancer, HPV vaccine
By asiadmin
Posted: June 3, 2021
Welcome. My name is Mari D. Martin, author of Come Home Alive. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with
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