(Part 1 of My Fifth Year) I am 5 x 10 (oh, how I wish that was 5′ 10″) but this year, 2017, in many ways I am experiencing my fifth year. Today s that first fifth marker as it is the fifth Easter I will not spend a four-day…
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Ziggy Rain
“The more your life zigs when it should have zagged, the less you want the zag moving forward.” — Sister Rain
For Whom The Books Are Written, They Are Written For Thee
In honor of my ability to once again read my beloved books with the help of a Merlin LCD Electronic Magnifier, I am determined to read some Classic literature. The only books of this kind I remember being assigned to read in school were J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Lord…
Hairy Lemonade
At an appointment yesterday with my primary care physician, I asked her about the pimples that keep popping out all along my chin. It is the worst acne of my life, my teenage skin a porcelain doll’s in comparison. As I suspected, the cause is the stage of life I…
Suits Of Armor
I just donated quite a few business suits to a wonderful organization, Wings For Success. They are located in Frazer, Pennsylvania, and as stated on their website, they “provide more than work-appropriate clothes to courageous and economically disadvantaged women. They help outfit them with confidence.” One of the volunteers at…
Blood Letting (A Student Draw Mine)
I am not needle-adverse. Never have been. Shots, IVs, blood donation, blood drawn for lab testing — don’t phase me in the least. This served me well during the week I spent in a Philadelphia hospital after I woke up blind. Oh, let’s add spinal tap (or lumbar puncture, if…
A Cup Of Coffee And A Friendship To Go
A rainy, gray morning and a new issue of People magazine, called for a travel mug of coffee to accompany me back to bed after breakfast. I retrieved the The West Wing tv series tumbler from the kitchen cabinet, another relic from my corporate America days. It was given to me an infinite…
Some Days Are Crappier Than Others
As many of us do, I reached for my phone this morning before my eyes were fully open and checked messages and then today’s To Do List. Following the usual working out and blogging tasks, I saw “Poop”. In my pre-coffee haze, it took me a minute to remember I…
She Died Putting Her Boots On
Ladies, wash the body lotion off your hands before zipping on your riding boots. For that is a slippery slope.