Husband
husband |ˈhəzbənd|noun
a married man considered in relation to his wife : she and her husband are both retired.
verb [ trans. ]use (resources) economically; conserve : the need to husband his remaining strength.
ORIGIN late Old English (in the senses [male head of a household] and [manager, steward] ), from Old Norse húsbóndi ‘master of a house,’ from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil.’The original sense of the verb was [till, cultivate.]
Wife
wife |wīf|noun ( pl. wives |wīvz|)
a married woman considered in relation [...]
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Sibylle’s sister (Hi, Schwesterchen!) asked today, via email, how I was liking my new job, and how we were liking living in Manhattan.
Location, Location, Location
Living in Manhattan is great. Â I told Sibylle this evening that living here feels like coming home on several levels. Â Through the nine months Sibylle lived here, and we were bi-residential, [...]
Crowded Voting Booth
Posted in family, life, social issues on Oct 24th, 2008
In just a little under two weeks I’ll be standing in a voting booth in the local church casting my ballot in the 2008 Presidential Election. Â I will exercise my franchise as a citizen of the United States. Â That I live in Kansas, a solidly “red” state, making my vote for Barack Obama largely symbolic, [...]
Today is my sister’s 46th birthday. Â She died on Christmas Day 1973 at the age of eleven from leukemia. Â In the intervening 35 years I’ve come to terms with her death, come to terms with my grief, and my survivor’s guilt. Â But there is one question I cannot answer: who would she be?
Amy was a [...]
The past seven days have been a real roller-coaster of a week. Â The two weeks prior to last weekend weren’t much better.
May 27
Throughout the day, Sibylle noticed that Nekko was behaving a bit oddly.  As her symptoms became more pronounced, Sibylle took Nekko to the vet.  Nekko had experienced hypoglycemia, or insulin shock.  There was too [...]
Missing Nekko
Posted in family on Jun 12th, 2008
Several times since Monday I have started to write something about Nekko, but each time I found the emotion too strong to capture in words. Â I still feel a sense of emptiness, of being hollow. Â Nekko was with me for eleven years. Â She moved from Illinois to Washington, and then to South Carolina, back to [...]
Nekko (1997 – 2008)
Nekko’s condition, after seeming to stabilize Wednesday and Thursday, started to diminish on Friday. Â She stopped eating and was more and more listless through out the day. Â By Saturday morning we were concerned that she wasn’t eating, and had, apparently, not moved her bowels in a couple of days. Â At the recommendation of our vet [...]
For the past week, Sibylle and I have kept a much closer watch on Nekko, her insulin injections, her food intake, litter box usage, and general overall demeanor. Â For the most part Nekko has seemed to be fine. Â She still displayed some aggressiveness around our food, but willingly ate her own food. Â We reduced her [...]
We are hopeful that Nekko’s episode with insulin shock was an isolated event. Â Since Tuesday we have closely monitored her eating and insulin, and haven’t seen any evidence of another bottoming out like Sibylle caught that day.
For her part, Nekko, seems to be normal again. Â She still displays some aggressiveness around our food, needing to [...]