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End of the Break

4/27/2012

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

I know. I know. That was another gaping gap. But this time the news is mostly good. I did miss one week at the Soldiers Home because my son and I were sick (with the most bizarrely synchronized digestive disaster ever), but I missed two weeks because my mom came out from Michigan, and we took a lovely, warm, soul-filling trip to Phoenix for spring break. And then I returned to The Seattle Times for another six-month gig, bringing my total job load to two. Plus our puppy is still a puppy. Lots going on.

I had warned Terry the volunteer coordinator that I’d be out of town and out of Bingo commission, but I still got some confused calls leading up to the Spring Break Bingo, including one from Dorothy that somehow ended up with everyone thinking I was gone for a month. It wasn’t quite that long.

But it seemed like it to Ray McDade—he called to say he hadn’t seen me “for a month of Sundays.”

So as soon as we got back, my mom and I went out to see him. He was thrilled. He asked about my dad and promised to take him fishing the next time he comes out. My mom had caught a little cold on our vacation, but Ray wanted a real hug, anyway. He got one. And I had missed Ray more than I'd realized, so he got one from me, too.
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    My name is Sandy Deneau Dunham. I'm a journalist who’s worked at The Phoenix Gazette, The (Tacoma) News Tribune,  The Seattle Times, Town Hall Seattle and Pacific Lutheran University. I'm now back at The Seattle Times, as associate editor of its gorgeously glossy Pacific NW magazine. I've been a volunteer at the Washington Soldiers Home and Colony in Orting, Washington, since January 2009, and I am still a remedial videographer.   

     

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