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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Toy Society Drop #1100 in memory of Maddie

This bear is being "dropped" today, April 7, 2010, for the Toy Society in memory of Maddie – a very special spirit who loved purple and who looked so good in yellow.

After 28 weeks and 6 days of an extremely rocky gestation, Madeline Alice was born on November 11, 2007. She weighed three pounds one ounce, and was 15 3/4 inches long. Because she was over 11 weeks premature, she was rushed to a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She spent 68 long days there until the wonderful January afternoon she went home.

Maddie’s prematurity left her lungs scarred, but her amazing happiness remained unscathed. She lit up the lives of everyone she met (and countless more she didn’t) with her bright eyes, infectious laugh, and gigantic grin.

On April 6th, Maddie came down with a severe respiratory infection. She left the world suddenly and unexpectedly April 7, 2009.

Friends of Maddie was established in tribute to this extraordinary little girl and the light that she brought to the world.

For more information about Friends of Maddie, please click here.


Please check out the Toy Society blog to see where the toy gets dropped and who picks up. Hopefully Ms. Maddie won't mind sharing.

UPDATE: ran outside at lunchtime and not-so-stealthily stashed this in a "pocket park" in a planter full of daffodils a few blocks from the office. I used "flower photography" to disquise actions. The park was full of families with young kids, as well as the nanny brigades with their little charges. If that toy isn't discovered very soon, I'd be totally surprised.

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