Mardy Ross's blog

I'm eating a lot of cole slaw lately.  In late July, I received word through Messenger (interconnected with Facebook) of the sudden passing of one of my most important friends of my entire life.   We were all early 20's, and he started out as a coworker of my significant other-turned-husband. He would come to dinner once a week (Tuesdays, one semester, which had to do with their class schedules attending the University).  I'd purchased a mobile home near campus literally next to the railroad tracks, and I worked on or near campus.  read more »

Happy end of 2017

and looking ahead to 2018 with YOU! 

Do you remember how fun it was to get printed Christmas Letters (or whatever holiday you'd celebrate) in the mail?  I loved them -- I remember the first woman who was doing them, too -- her daughter was my first friend from age 2 or 3.  I look forward to getting an update from YOU if you are updating!   read more »

UPDATE/ EDIT, early September 2018.  The Pen Pal Program morphed into a Storytime (by telephone, video chat, in person, whatever works best based on preferences and location) with discussion, but I'm leaving this blog topic in place because it was a worthwhile step in the process!   read more »

It's the morning of winter solstice, as I write this and look ahead to the ending of 2016 and having a NEW YEAR, a new calendar, and another "trip around the Sun" we'll take --- together.  read more »

They say every person who loves dogs will have three really special ones in their lifetime.  I'm on my third, and I've not owned any of them, technically.  Meet O'Rio! And he's the first male for me, the previous two extra special ones (to me) were females.  And did I get an epitome of a big, male dog to learn from/help heal /BE with for part of life's journey or WHAT?    read more »

First, as a preface -- let me acknowledge that I'm using the word "all" loosely in the title; most or many might be more accurate.  If you're not into prefaces, scan down to where the pickle photo is and start there.  I think the following context setting will help most people reading this, however.   read more »

Edit, late July 2015: It appears to me that we are very much 'in disclosure' now.  Due to the way the blog tab and it's blogs near the top are easiest for me to direct people to, this is going to be added onto and I'll integrate or 'graft' in new information with what I'd provided here initially, creating this topic thread in April 2014.  It had 2,300+ reads in the fifteen months prior to this edit in late July 2015. This is what I'd already said here:  read more »

NOTE: I rarely create new blog posts because the blogs that are here that people see I think are good starting points for people coming to Lumigrate to get an idea of 'what I'm about', or 'who I am'. I work almost daily on content in the forums at Lumigrate.  You can see in the boxes on the side what's new in comments or what's a new forum topic, so if you regularly do that, you'll keep up.  read more »

On January 1 of this year (2013), Billie Green unwittingly stepped into a new role, as her "YOU!" of the Lumigrate collaborative care model.  As a resident of the Grand Valley of western Colorado, moving here after completing the rehabilitation provided by her employer through worker's compensation insurance, with very limiting restrictions at the end of that process which left her looking for work but definitely NOT looking good on an application to employers.  read more »

WELCOME to ALL who participated in the 2013/6th Annual Sweet Heart Run and Health Expo, put on by the City of Fruita and Family Health West on Saturday, February 9, 2013.   read more »