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Princesses
I always thought I’d have a boy. Rough housing and baseball – I was certain that was what my future entailed. So when we got a call about adopting a little girl, I wasn’t so sure. I’m not really the...
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Crawling The Colon Into 30
It hit me early into this year that my 30th would be approaching. A complex bag of emotions soon arrived at my emotional doorway. My birthday is always bittersweet to me – it’s something about...
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Birth Family Christmas
Tonight we kicked off the first of our family Christmas gatherings. But it was unlike any others we’ll experience this week. A local BBQ restaurant made a great ‘neutral’ meeting place as we traveled...
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Happy Holidays From the Burgesses
Well, I didn’t end up sending out Christmas cards this year. A little 30th birthday bash kind of took up a lot of my pre-holiday time. But, I thought I’d wish everyone a very Merry Christmas through...
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It’s OK to go Quiet
I recently renewed the domain name to this blog and realized I’ve not written one post all year. ALL YEAR! With my team in D.C. for our 8th annual Call-on Congress Part of that is unintentional....
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Silly Me for Trusting my Doctor
“All of my doctors didn’t listen to me.” Her words echo on my screen as the news of her death still sinks in. Memories travel back to several years ago at the McMaster’s house, sitting in Adirondack...
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Disney, Devotionals and Downtime
This week I spent some time looking around online for some resources offering support for a friend. No matter if you face cancer or some other situation, the online world offers a ton of information...
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5 Reasons the Kansas City Royals AREN’T the Worst
Update: I shot this blog post over to Huffington Post Sports and they posted it today! To avoid duplicate content I kept a snippet here, but to keep reading, head over to the Huff Post to read &...
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Sugar Fast, Mayo Clinic and Growing up Way Too Fast
One of the best blessings of life is weeks when I can report that the life of this semicolon is… “normal.” I’ve been home for a full week, which after the past few travel-filled months feels very nice....
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Write.
I’ve had at least twenty ideas for new blog posts over the past several months. But I’ve not been able to write them. Sometimes it’s difficult to form words around what my heart really wants to say. To...
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Moving On…
This blog has served me well. Very well. It’s hard to migrate on. I’m still totally attached. But, there’s more I’m blogging about than life after colon cancer. Or at least I plan to. There’s more to...
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