My daughter went to college and got a specialty in diversity particularly as it pertains to underserved communities such as racial and LGBTQ+ individuals. Since she is in school for this working on her Master’s degree, I have been talking to her about her classes and information about how underserved communities are represented in media, […]
Many of you know, but some of you might not, that I have five parrots. They are: Conner, a female green cheek conure with the pineapple mutation (GCC) Woz, a 30 year old male orange winged amazon parrot Bob, a 30 year old male orange winged amazon parrot and Woz’s nest mate brother Hatch, a […]
So today I got a letter in the mail with a plastic card in it that had all the information about my bioprosthetic heart valve that I have. It had the serial number of the valve and the size and MRI information. I’m supposed to carry that card with me everywhere I go and show […]
I don’t always feel like writing, but when you do it for a living, you have to write sometimes, even when you don’t feel like it. I’m in a lot of pain every day, and that’s not conductive to good writing, or any writing for that matter, but I’ve found that sometimes writing takes my […]
The other day, I had been in the car for about 20 minutes, and prior to that, had been in an office where I had sat for most of 40 minutes, and the entire time, I needed to go pee so badly my eyeballs were about to start floating. I finally made it home and […]
(this was written about 10 years ago before I got really sick and lost the ability to walk from the strokes…. this is a blast from the past blog from my old Myspace days but it seemed to fit with now too so I thought I’d share it again.) One thing I’ve learned from being […]
There is nothing in the world like a ‘first’ and sadly there is no way to get back a ‘first’ once it’s passed you. First impressions, first glances, first kisses… the first time. These are things we tend to remember, and not just remember, but carry with us throughout our lives. I was in the […]
There is nothing more essential to life than a breath. We know a baby is born alive and well when he takes his first breath; we know someone has died when they take their last breath, and then there are all the breaths in between that makeup life. So many times someone would tell me, […]
When I woke, it was, at first, the same as any other time I’d ever awakened. I faded into awareness. I could hear my best friend’s voice calling to me. I opened my eyes, and she was there, hovering over my face. “Hi!” she said, her eyes red, her voice unusually, artificially cheerful. I thought […]
I was talking to my daughter last night, and she has started this cool book, collecting words. Mostly, she’s writing quotes and slogans and phrases that mean something to her and writing them in this tooled, leather-bound book. It’s an awesome collection of positive phrases and quotes that I really enjoyed reading through last night. […]
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