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For those of you who have been following the news or my twiiterfeed , you'll know that Randy Pausch , acclaimed professor from my alma mater , finally succumbed today to the pancreatic cancer that has been haunting him for 7 months. I don't claim to know
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You might remember that we recently took a road trip in an effort to understand Emma's tragic death and to search for answers why. As with each trip I've taken across the US, I stop at bizarre and interesting places to get the flavor of the region. While
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As part of Emma's donation, we'll be placing a plaque on or by the new swing set. It's turning out to be much harder to figure out what to say than we thought, so we'd love your help. The parameters: 10 words or less No "memorial language" May include
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When I signed the girls up for Microsoft benefits at the end of last year, I was offered the chance to get child life insurance. I was leaning against it until I saw it was only a couple of bucks a month. Given that I wouldn't even notice the change in
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As I mentioned in my eariler posts, my climbing partner and good friend Armand summited Everest this past month. Emma died while he was in Nepal, but I emailed him to let him know what was happeneing. I also told him Em would be looking over him during
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I drove as quickly and as long as I could over the last few days so that I could arrive back home in Seattle last night. As you can see from the map , I had driven over 9,000 miles during these last 4 weeks. One of the things that Emma taught me was to
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I have no idea why Emma chose Savannah as the end point for our cross country journey. Was it the sunrise? We don't know, however, when we arrived to Savannah on Friday, both Ellen and I could sense this was the right place to be. This journey has been
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Originally this was for the morning of May 17th This morning we woke up before dawn and walked down to the beach on Tybee Island, Georgia to watch the sunrise. I expected the sunrise to be as spiritual as the sunset was in Santa Monica three weeks ago,
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Today we summoned the gods of science to help us search for answers about Emma. After getting lost on Route 666 , we figured we could use as much help as we could get. Thus we headed out to Very Large Array, NM. It was a pretty long drive through some
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Last night the three of us accompanied by my friend Jim , went down to the Santa Monica Pier to say good night to Emma. She was shinning brightly all day and it was now time for her to rest. The view of the sunset over the Santa Monica mountain was amazing
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We are making quick progress down the coast. Something told us that our trip wouldn't really start until we got to LA to watch the sunset. Thus we've decided to forgo any side trips and head straight to Santa Monica to visit one of my good friends . Tonight
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Our road trip started today, with our very first stop at a funeral home in Ballard to pick up Emma. You can follow along via this special map that I'm updating as we travel. Both Ellen and I separately had a feeling that this was to be our official first
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As many of you who are close to me know, I am not a religious person, but I can be a spiritual person. I don't usually share that with many people, but after all that's happened, I figured I might as well share it with you all. I've had people close to
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I know I haven't blogged in a while, but we are still trying to get our lives back to normal. Finally, we are coming up for air and have some really interesting posts regarding Emma, Ella and the rest of us. Who knows, I may even add some tech posts as
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Ellen and I have been truly touched by the support from everyone all over the world during the last 3 weeks. It has been nothing short of spectacular. Emma would have been amazed at this outpouring of love from all the people she touched. Some of you
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