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I receive the New York Times every Sunday so I can take a stab at one of the most challenging crosswords that they publish on the last page. For one, it’s sort of a bragging right if you can complete them, they’re at times extremely clever and difficult. For another, I hope doing this crossword, even though frustrating at times, will help ward off senioritis. You know, growing old and letting your mind go to waste.

A few weeks back, I was struck by an article published June 1, 2025 and actually read it prior to flipping to the puzzle on the last page. The article concerns MAID, or Medical Assistance in Dying. In a nutshell a doctor helps you in committing suicide. No other way to describe it.

Paula Ritchie as photographed by Oliver Farshi

I feel a heightened need to get this website up and running. As we approach these final steps, placements, images, edit and re-edit, I am beginning to believe it might be a one off. Compiling everything I’ve written to date.

Will this be like one of my paintings, songs or finished piece of wood? Done, put on a shelf, buried away, replaced by the next work?

This project needs different treatment, this journal detailing my past and my hopes for a better future. As long as I have time left to try to reach it, the better future. The journal goes on as long as I go on, stopped only if my strength or mental health won’t allow me to carry on.

Each of these posts are almost like a small piece of art in and of themselves. The website is my gallery of works.

Tag: MAID

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