I’m the kind of person who goes to the doctor and then tries to resolve every single medical concern I’ve had over the year. No matter if I’m at the appointment for gout, I’ll also ask if it’s weird my nose has grown two sizes in six months, what’s up with my butt, why I’m…Continue Reading
Archives for September 2010
One Way or the Other, I Want it to be OK (UPDATE: It *is* OK!)
I’ve had mammograms every year since I was 30. That’s 11 years of mammograms. Once or twice, something suspicious was found, but quickly dismissed, and I go on for another year hoping I’m OK. I watched my mom die from breast cancer, and each time I enter the breast care center, I sense her spirit…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #120: What Comes in the Spaces Between
Before I left for the mountains Saturday morning, I’d been feeling a bit out of sorts; caterwauled, twitterpaited. For months, I’d been a receptacle for millions of megabits of input from hundreds of other people, mostly via various social media channels. Information kept hitting me upside the head from all sides, begging for response,…Continue Reading
So….Hi Again!
OK, tell you what. I’m going to push PROMPTuesday to tomorrow for this one time only. So check back on Wednesday if you would. In other news, I am dying, DYING to post more right now, but I’m so all over the place today I can’t even begin to coalesce thoughts into anything understandable.…Continue Reading
Also…
And oh, hi! Hello. I ignored PROMPTuesday this week. It was bugging me. So I pretended it wasn’t there. If you’d like, leave me some creative writing prompt ideas for next week (or email me). Because everyone is bugging me. Except you.
Making It Up As I Go
Did you ever have one of those MacGyver mornings? Where you’re out of almost everything edible, but you and the kids are hungry and you pull some ridiculous food concoction out of your butt to make it through breakfast until you get to the store? Ergo: The other day I woke up to the…Continue Reading
