Roadbenders

Mom is having a bad day. She has just now risen from bed, though it is nearly noon, leaving me with three hours of periodic breathing-checks from her doorway since I got up at half-past eight. Her light is always on when she’s had a bad night, her book open on her chest. Last night
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Names of paint samples I’ve collected this year: Enveloping Calm Foaming Waters Light of the Moon Earthy Glimmer Moonlit Lawn Purple Poem Bark Antique Winter Evening Sun Drift Marble White Mountain Pass Chimney Sweep Lush Shade Gray Morning Winter Wind Violet Evening Olive Grove Haystack Twine Pale Sunshine White Pine Brown Moss Lunar Glow Meditation
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(from my paper journal) I am sitting in the patient room with Mom while she receives Gemzar intravenously. She is in a recliner, leaned back on two pillows with a blue blanket draped across her knees, engrossed in a Nora Roberts novel. She is wearing a grey tracksuit and has others at home in a
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