Category Archives: Personal History

The history of Sam, and how he got to where he is from where he was

Ghosts I have met

Posted on February 13, 2002 by Marchbanks

I hung out in the sort of places where anyone might naturally expect to find them—graveyards—but however much I prepared, the ghosts always seemed to have something else to do when I was around. Continue reading →

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My life, at five year intervals

Posted on February 10, 2002 by Marchbanks

Now I am 44, and . . . Continue reading →

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Today’s research project

Posted on January 17, 2002 by Marchbanks

The deed stipulates that the purchaser “shall carry a fire insurance policy on the dwelling house purchased in some good and reliable Fire Insurance Co.” Continue reading →

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I delight in blindsiding people

Posted on January 11, 2002 by Marchbanks

If she wanted to know she could ask him to explain about Canterbury and the Blue Book. Continue reading →

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Also sprach Mayo

Posted on December 27, 2001 by Marchbanks

His opinion is the tumor is a giant-cell granuloma, which is the one we hoped it would be. Continue reading →

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Done up, more or less

Posted on December 26, 2001 by Marchbanks

We seem to have survived the holiday without catastrophe. Continue reading →

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We still don’t know what it is

Posted on December 20, 2001 by Marchbanks

Still, nobody knows what it is, although we’re now absolutely certain it’s not malignant. Continue reading →

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Sehr interessant . . . but not surprising

Posted on December 19, 2001 by Marchbanks

We’ve always taken the position that what you are is what you are. Continue reading →

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Everyone’s home again, and some of it’s better now

Posted on December 6, 2001 by Marchbanks

What he discovered was a great muddled mess of tumor and bone and tooth all together. Continue reading →

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There are only 87 actual people

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marchbanks

It became so common that in the family we called it the “Comanche syndrome.” Continue reading →

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