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So This is How it Goes

August 13, 2017by champslikeus Leave a comment

She doesn’t remember me when I come to visit after she arrived home from the hospital. She calls me to fix her computer. Interestingly, I follow another woman into her […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

Leaving Sheila

March 30, 2015by champslikeus 2 Comments

Sheila had dementia. Bob was her husband, and I was their social-worker, so when the phone rang and Bob said, “I was tucking Sheila into bed last night and she asked […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

These Days Will Come

June 19, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half.  Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker, Portfolio

The Tent, the Pit-Bull and a Brown Mini-Van

January 7, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

Pacific Northwest, WA — I picked up the phone on a Wednesday morning, finished my coffee and hoped for a walk-in-the-park day.  It was my job to answer the phone […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

Road Trip South: Mishap in Chattahoochee

December 15, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Chattahoochee, FL to Orange Beach, AL — After spending the night in Chattahoochee, Lucy and I departed for Orange Beach, AL, but not before trying to find a post office […]

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Deep South Road Trip - 2013

Road Trip South: The Travel Spoon

December 14, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

St. Marys, GA to Chattahoochee, FL — Along the way to Chattahoochee, Lucy and I caught up on our past year in grad school.  She’s studying youth; I prefer older […]

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Deep South Road Trip - 2013

The Beginning of a Road Trip South, Deep South

December 13, 2013by champslikeus 2 Comments

Charleston, SC to St. Marys, GA – Bailey, the young woman at the hostel, told me that there really weren’t a lot of restaurants serving local food in Charleston.  There […]

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Deep South Road Trip - 2013

The Would You Rather? Game

July 20, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Sewanee, TN – I play a game with the 12-year old whom I tutor called, Would you rather?  We ask each other things like: Would you rather discover that the […]

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Tennessee Summer - 2013

So Now You Know Where I’m At

July 13, 2013by champslikeus 2 Comments

Beersheba Springs, TN – “Marathon.  Marathon is the Greek word for fennel.  In Latin, it’s foeniculum.  In Spanish, it’s hinojo with a silent ‘h’.  That one doesn’t follow like the […]

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Tennessee Summer - 2013

Order in the Court

July 1, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Altamont, TN – If I was to learn rural Tennessee, I had to understand the people.  My cousin, who sometimes mediates in the courts, offered to let me shadow him for […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker, Tennessee Summer - 2013

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