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To prepare for researching my mystery medical bill, I filed the disorganized pile of papers I’d been accumulating, which had the past year’s medical bills mixed in. I finished that, and now my life feels a little clearer and tidier.<\/p>\n
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I got as far as making a general outline. I had a late start, but I also felt a bit underprepared and overwhelmed by this essay. This week I’ll identify the blank spots in my ideas for it and see where that takes me.<\/p>\n
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I listened to War Story<\/em> (book trailer<\/a>), Steven Elliott’s account of his recovery after he’d possibly killed Pat Tillman, fellow Army Ranger and former NFL player, in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. 5\/5: I appreciated his honest and difficult questions and his clarity in identifying the factors that helped him. I was also struck by how well he painted Pat as someone you’d want to know.<\/p>\n Now to get my heart wrung out by September Vaudrey’s Colors of Goodbye<\/em>.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Last week I made the ebook for my coworker’s first published novel, The Means That Make Us Strangers<\/em><\/a>, a story about the civil rights movement in the ’60s. I’ve added it to my listening queue, where it will nicely complement Carolyn Maull McKinstry’s While the World Watched<\/em>. Then on Saturday I had a nice time at Christine’s festive and well-attended book launch party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Site update \ud83e\udd14 I’m going back to the more restricted template I used early on in these updates with a max of four sentences per topic. Life maintenance \ud83d\ude42 To prepare for researching my mystery medical bill, I filed the … Continue reading Fiction<\/h2>\n