With my mom’s illness in 2012 which resulted in her death, followed by my vision loss a few months later, then my husband’s cardiac crisis after that and next my father-in-law’s sudden passing, I’ve let some things go as far as my health checks but am finally getting everything poked…
Twas the middle of the night And nothing could be heard We all were deeply snoozing My husband, me and the bird. The clock on the nightstand Showed just before three When the silence was shattered What could it be? I awoke right away My heart pounding in fear My…
I started my day with a cup of McDonald’s coffee (my favorite) that my husband went and got for me, and my new issue of People magazine. As I have previously written about, I can enlarge everything in the digital version to sizes that I can see. Click here for that post….
I recently heard someone say they need time in their head and they aren’t sure that would be possible if they were a parent. Never having had children, I can’t be sure, but I’m thinking if you want kids you have them and like all else in life you figure…
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. — Melody Beattie
Struggling with a painful knee and elbow the past two weeks, I finally saw the doctor today. Turns out I have tendonitis up top and a strained MCL down below. What happened, you ask? A fall? A car accident? A contact sport? What happened is I turned 50 which really…
I just plucked a stubborn chin hair while riding the exercise bike. And here I’ve been thinking that I have no life.* * I have been feeling down the last few days, missing my old life so much the only defense is to shut down so I don’t feel the pain….
Down today, the prevailing thought is this: How an I to play the hand I’ve been dealt when I can’t see it?
