John

Another Dream
This is a special bonus issue to celebrate having posted 10 articles in this series.
Early this morning I had another dream about John. As is becoming distressingly common, I woke up about 4 a.m. and thought the dog needed to go outside. When she couldn’t be bothered, I came out to the [...]

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Judge Leonard
Last Thursday, I was required by the Probate Judge supervising John’s estate to appear before him along with the attorney representing State Farm. The hearing took place at 8 a.m. at the Champaign County Courthouse. I arrived at 7:30 and discovered that only employees were allowed into the courthouse before 8 a.m. [...]

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State Farm
State Farm insured the driver of the car that struck John. This has been the only agency in this entire nightmare that has treated us with callous disrespect. I can see why the victims of various disasters have complained about State Farm’s responsiveness and cavalier treatment.
Within a couple weeks of John’s death, [...]

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Disney
We (Russ, Mary Ann and I) are just back from a 10-day jaunt to Orlando to visit good friends and to unwind after challenging academic years. We experienced close up a wildfire whose smoke delayed us on I-75 between Lake City and the Florida-Georgia border for 1½ hours. Very claustrophobic to be parked [...]

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More Dreams
I had intended to write this next piece about Disney since we are down here in Orlando. We visited Downtown Disney earlier this week and plan to see Epcot tomorrow. However, I had two dreams about John early this morning that I want to be sure and write down.
In the first, John [...]

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Traveling
I am writing this week from a Super 8 hotel room in Forsyth, GA on our way to Florida to visit our friends Sue and David. I can’t say that John loved to travel, though he did his fair share of it. Most of the time we took car trips. When he [...]

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