You know how when you have a cold or an injury and it’s the only thing you can think about? How sometimes, in the case of a bone or a muscle, you can feel your pulse in that painful spot and you hear inside your head, “that hurts, that hurts,…
Month: January 2017
Lather. Rinse. Rinse Again. And Again.
Sometimes when I comb out my hair after washing it I notice that there is still some shampoo left in it. I have been washing my hair for over fifty years, so I’m wondering how this happens. I don’t rush through the rinsing process so what the heck is going…
Hue-man Sights
When I watch TV, it looks black and white to me. If the people on-screen aren’t familiar, I have no way of knowing what their skin color is. My inability to see race has not been lost on me over the past few years. I don’t have the answers to the…
The Circle Of Lies
When I was in my 20s and a healthcare professional would ask about my use of alcohol and its frequency, there was always an internal debate about whether or not to tell the truth. During my 30s and 40s it was easy and immediate to reply, “Yes. Occasionally. Currently in…
Taking Care
I’m one of those people who really takes good care of things and as a result they last a long time. I remember my mom saying this about me to others, how toys I outgrew looked like new even after countless hours of play. Last week I unpacked my hiking…
Tech Filtration
While texting the word “urine” this week, multiple times, auto-correct would always change it to “Heineken”. I knew that beer turns into pee but not the other way around. As for my reference to numerous texts regarding Heineken, I mean urine, with no explanation, consider it my homage to this month’s return…
And So I Carrie On
Taking more than a week off from blogging due to an onslaught of life’s insanity, I struggled a bit with how to return. Things have happened over the last few weeks that I’m not quite ready to talk about, or joke about. And then I saw this quote this morning…