Some people believe there are no such thing as limits, others that there are limits but they can be pushed through and past. And there are those who believe in and allow limits to keep them stuck. I have been wondering about the fine line between empowering ourselves and knowing…
Month: February 2018
If You Were My Friend, I’d Bring YounA Pint Of Breathe
A dear friend recently experienced a devastating personal blow which initially ravaged her emotionally and mentally. Because of that, even the most mundane daily activities were almost impossible. I hope that you’ve never been in this situation but if you have you know exactly what I mean. Brushing your teeth…
Birds And Their Feathers Stick Together
I grow attached to my feathers, When they are attached to me, And when they molt* from my body, A hard habit to break it can be. It’s strange to be holding my feather, I’s not where it’s meant to belong, But I find myself preening it anyway, It’s nature…
Backup A Darn Minute
“Backup” has become such a part of our world that we take it for granted. I first learned in 1988 the importance of backing up during a stressful marketing budget planning crunch at work, aided by my first computer, a Leading Edge. Thirty years later you would think it would…
Do These Pants Make My Butt Look A**-Backwards?
Last week was an especially trying week with the only thing going right was that everything went wrong. Even the weekend was plagued by incidents. This morning, feeling heavy-hearted and stomach-sick over the disappearance of this blog last week as a result of an update, I got dressed. As I…
Hospital Realization
I go by our local hospital often and I always make sure I look towards it and think about the people inside. I was born in this hospital, have had several surgeries in its operating rooms, visited the emergency room for several minerare (minor to moderate) something-suddenly-came-ups. But is has…
Keeping Each Other Grounded
I asked my husband for a plug adapter for the space heater I sometimes use in the bathroom and requested that he put it on my iPad which was charging on the dining room table. Hours later, I looked for the adapter on the table but it wasn’t there. Neither…
Capitalism
I have always capitalized the names of my contacts when entering them into my phone, starting with my first device back in the mid 90s. This has served me well since my vision loss when bigger and bolder is better for me to see with, my dear. But any time I…
Throwing Out The First Pitch: Rhett Butler
I recently dreamt that I was throwing out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game. And I was scared to death. Although I had impaired vision and couldn’t see the catcher, that wasn’t what terrified me. The fact that I had no idea what I was doing and…
Getting Stoned
“If my younger tomboy self, playing in the empty neighborhood lot with her friends, knew that forty-five years later she would be paying over $100 to have hot stones rubbed on her, she would have told the biggest kid in the group to throw stones at her.” — Sister Rain