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A Tale of Lost Traditions...

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Hello and welcome to our 2nd tale for November. This will be our final tale for 2021, as we are taking a break, during the holiday season. Brenda in all candor, would like the whole thing to be over. It's not a joyful time for her. She has no family to celebrate with. It's a busy time for her at work, with total exhaustion by the time she gets home and for what?  The holidays have always been challenging for Brenda. Her memories are not that happy. Not being able to participate in the Christmas concert at school, because Brenda ended up getting sick. Her immune system was already trashed as a young child. Celebrating with her parents and then having to be taken back to her apartment to spend the rest of the day alone, because she was not invited to her sister's. Imagine having that happen to you and not knowing why. Yes, this is the same sister who she has been estranged from for almost 14 years.  Brenda is done trying to figure this nonsense out, because that is simply wha

A Tale of Quality vs. Quantity...

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Hello and welcome to our November tale. I'm Trevor aka T Man and storyteller of this blog now, for over 10 years.  Our subject comes from the advocate deep down inside of Brenda. She is actually referring to what is about to be shared, as righteous indignation. Part of Brenda's brain tumor journey has been living with frontal lobe syndrome, where she reacts quickly with anger or tears, when she sees someone being wronged or treated unfairly. As you know we are in the midst of a global pandemic, which has been going on for far too long. In dog years, it would be much worse. BOL Pardon me, I had to get a little humor in there, before we get to the meat of this tale. I actually would say that Brenda has a bone to pick with what is going on in relationship to access to some medications or should we say, no access because they are not available.  Here we go! As you know the Corona Virus or what is referred to as COVID-19, is having those who have contracted the virus and are likely