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Hi everybody I have been taking care of my mother who has been here in California for the last two weeks and I haven't been able to focus on

anything else. It has been two weeks of many emotions and mom is ready to go home.

The good news is she's doing much better than we thought and I will be going back to New Jersey in a week to start helping her officially move into her partner's place

She's been unofficially living with him for the last several months, and it's just time to make it official,

since we don't think it makes sense for, we don't think it makes sense to keep her condo because we don't think it's

safe for her to live alone anymore, and she has come to terms with it as well.

So it's the best of circumstances that we could hope for in that we feel that she belongs

in New Jersey with her boyfriend and I'll just be making more visits back there but it's

really really good news so all that's to say regretfully I did not have time to

write the next podcast episode but I still wanted to give you some content to enjoy and ponder and chew on and hopefully

comment on.

So I decided to just put together a compilation of all the radio commentaries I have done for National

Public Radio, specifically KQED, my National Public Radio

Station in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It's 11 years of episodes.

I've kind of pulled out the ones I think you would enjoy most.

They're each only two minutes long,

so they're pretty short, and I thought it would be fun

for you to listen to them back to back if you haven't listened to them already.

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