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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. Halfway through my treatment. Six months to go and I’m no quitter. Halfway done, pushing through until December. I can do this. But can my family endure? No one sees you at your worst than family. And yet, their patience is keeping me from saying screw it. I want to complete the regimen. They’re along for the ride. I felt fine. Then a test comes back and says I had cancer for who knows how long. How could I have been training so hard and not suspect? July 2, 2016.
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. The slowest and the fastest year. Finally, what is making this year race by is that my eldest daughter is preparing for college, leaving late this summer for Reed in Portland, Oregon. One friend told me that Reed is basically prep school for grad school and yields the most PhD’s per capita of any school except for Caltech. High standards. Certainly not when we are teenagers. Remember when she went on her fourth-grade Big Island trip? And time will fly. May 3, 2016.
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. Poem #4: Imperfect, Limerick, Enjambment. All for Race Day. Triathletes train every day of the week. Swim, bike, run. Perfection they seek. For months they prep for the big dance,. Miles in the bank could pay a big advance. Unless of course, they short change their peak. A late afternoon test ride down the Road to Nowhere and back. October 7, 2015. October 10, 2015. 4 Comments on Poem #4: Imperfect, Limerick, Enjambment. Eat at Mom’s. Lavagal’s Tag Cloud. Here for my o...
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. The Skin I’m In. After I brought down the bike rack in the Boca Hawaii Lanikai Triathlon. I always do this little cup shower thing. Mahalo, Edna, for the photo. I’ve been hesitant to share this because of the infamous Facebook happy birthday syndrome. I don’t want everyone to go OMYGOSH! Surgery is Monday. The newly healed skin will be cut back open and then some. Am I full of dread? It won’t be for another two weeks until we know if melanoma is in the surroundin...
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Lavagal – Page 2 – Aloha From Hawaii Kai ~~ Paula Bender
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. The slowest and the fastest year. Finally, what is making this year race by is that my eldest daughter is preparing for college, leaving late this summer for Reed in Portland, Oregon. One friend told me that Reed is basically prep school for grad school and yields the most PhD’s per capita of any school except for Caltech. High standards. Certainly not when we are teenagers. Remember when she went on her fourth-grade Big Island trip? And time will fly. May 3, 2016.
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. But I Feel Fine! Walking along Haupuna Bay, my favorite place on the Big Island. Except for the hole in the back of my knee and a leaky incision where my lymph node was extracted, I wouldn’t think anything was wrong with me. I feel great! How can I be sick? How can I have Cancer? How can it be stage 3a? 8220;We have a lot to talk about,” she said. It hasn’t healed yet so we are waiting even longer to proceed with the skin graft. Is this really happening to me? She told...
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Aloha From Hawaii Kai Paula Bender. Not Letting Cancer Dictate My Life. White roses from my expository writing students, class of 2015. A sweet moment at the end of the school year. Although I am not happy about this setback Cancer has served me, I’ve decided staying home is boring. I miss out on so much. While we are alive, isn’t it a good idea to live? Lately, thanks to all the time I spend doing algebra and geometry on the Khan Academy website, I’ve been able to help students in math. ME! And now I ha...
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Girls Weekend | Leslie DiMichele Miller, Professional Triathlete
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Leslie DiMichele Miller, Professional Triathlete. I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match –Mia Hamm. December 10, 2012. This weekend I drove to Pennsylvania to meet up with my group of girlfriends from college. We try to make a point to meet up at least once a year to sit around and do nothing. Usually we are seeing each other at weddings, but in March we all went to Napa together, which was our first planned vacation. Lectie’s Bache...
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