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
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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
Personal Microderm System Review (Sort of)
I can’t wait until I get a real budget and can afford a sound stage and Ron Jeremy! In all non-snarky honesty, I love this thing. Which is why I’m poking fun at it — I tease because I love. I use it CONSTANTLY and it’s become a real threat to my marriage…Continue Reading
The Mirror
I search for my muse in coffee shops, on iPods, in friend’s faces. I sit and think, “maybe today, I will write like I mean to, like I want to, like I’m meant to.” But words get lost in Twitter streams, in frantic readying for this or that, in bottomless glasses. My ability to string…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #119: A New You
For today, let’s pretend you’re ditching your current life. You’re taking off to a new town as a completely different person. Maybe you’re in the Witness Protection Program, maybe you’re just after a fresh start, maybe you’ve robbed a bank and are starting over, whatever it is…Where do you go? What is your name? What…Continue Reading
A Most Unfortunate Series of Events
I vowed not to look at my phone, to Twitter, blog, talk, pee, or otherwise exist except to work. Nothing, not NO THING, was going to interrupt me. I planned to edit the document before me but good. With no distractions. I nearly made it too, but you know how sometimes you can “sense”…Continue Reading
Why I Don’t Work Out
I have this friend. And she is lovely. She really is. Very fit, exercise-y, trim. That kind of crap. Also, very motivational. Offering to train me, help me eat right, be my health “sponsor.” Which is awesome. But really, she’s like the blondie, feathered-hair cheerleader sister you have, where…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #118: Share The Love
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been reading some good blog posts lately. Inspirational, thought-provoking, creative, funny, good. Where would all this writing be if it weren’t for blogging? I often wonder. I might still be putting my words into my husband’s ear. Or on a barstool. Meanwhile as…Continue Reading
