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continued from Part 1... Heaven was missing. Tuesday Evening, June 27 On my way back to Spokane I felt helpless.  With my cell phone on the fritz, I hadn't checked messages since before leaving Butte Monday morning.  I wouldn't be able to do anything proactive until I got back home.  Considering that I'd spent much ...

As I mentioned in my previous update, between an accumulation of both work and personal issues, I had gotten pretty stressed out by mid-June and was planning to take some time off.  Unfortunately, with no one to help out, I couldn't really completely walk away from work for any extended time.  The best I'd be able to do would ...

Between work and home, the challenges have been significant the past few months. Heaven and LinkFirst, regarding Heaven's situation -- it's over.  I took her back to live with her mother this past Wednesday, and most of her belongings here are gone.  It became clear to me that my help was in fact, not helping.  After ...

Sorry for the long delay in updates again this month. As usual, things are crazy these days. Unfortunately, the degree of craziness is even higher than usual. Heaven's situation became a bit more complicated these past few weeks. Due to a variety of circumstances, she's being forced into changing to a high school in the district in which ...

Meagan and her new cat, Annie Ryan got a new guitar for ChristmasIt's been over a month now since my last entry.  I'm long overdue for at least a personal update, so here it is... The holidays were crazy.  Between work, holiday shopping, work, shuttling back and forth several times to Okanogan for Heaven's ...

I didn't realize how cathartic the blogging experience was until I couldn't do it regularly.  After averaging nearly 30 posts per month for the past few months, I'll be lucky to finish 10 this month.  Time for an update... The bottom line is that I've been extremely busy since getting back from our annual meeting in ...