Yesterday I went back to work for the first time after my wife's death. It is a slow road back, but they tell me to go back to familiar surroundings. To friends and family. So I have come back to the "Rain". A place I know well and enjoy being with fellow "Active Rainers". They tell me it wi
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07/29/2010
My Angel Marianne has left this earth. Marianne passed away today quietly, with family members, and friends crying by her side. But I can't say that about her life. She lived her life as an ordinary person, but she made a huge impact on so many lives and touched so many people deeply. God ha
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07/14/2010
Weare going through a tough time with my wife's cancer, but we have gotten through many tough days with friends and family. I can't say enough about our circle of friends, neighbors, co-workers, and friends. As we go through the stages of grief and the cancer process I am cheered up by the gener
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07/13/2010
My wife has taught me that it pays to be a romantic to your spouse through out your time together. Marriage or just living together. We all spend lots of money and do special things when we are dating, but sometimes those special little things go away after time. But showing your other half th
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07/11/2010
Kindness and generosity. Kindness and showing people that you care doesn't have to cost much. My wife liked to do the little things that made people know that she cared. At Halloween she would make the neighborhoods kids that we knew a special halloween bag. It had lots of candy in it, some m
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07/09/2010
Violence doesn't solve anything or teach anything. Marianne and I were raised totally differently. I was the old fashioned way. Where a beating with a belt was supposed to teach you right and wrong, where a father worked, didn't have much impact on child raising other than discipline, and neve
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07/08/2010
As I sit by my wife's bedside I wish to share something I watched her do over and over. It's something all of us try to learn but my wife had a God given talent. She was able to engage people like none other. She had the special talent of anybody that met her, loved her. She had the special w
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07/03/2010
Here is the current Livonia foreclosure listings. There are 61 Livonia foreclosures as of 7/3/2010. The have been on the market an average of 59 days. They range from $19,900 for a 590 square foot Livonia ranch up to $165,000 for a 2100 square foot tri-level. Price AddressCity BedBathStyleS
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07/03/2010
Here is a retelling of a recent Farmington Hills home inspection with a Michigan first time home buyer. They called me up to meet. Not cry, no overly upset but with a few worries. The Farmington MI home was built in 2002. But as the Metro Detroit home inspector was going through the home he ma
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07/01/2010
