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Red Boots, Again...
I sit in bed, reading...putting off a start to the day. My phone buzzes. Peter has sent a family text with this photo, taken three...
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Mar 15, 20223 min read
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As Much Magic As Fact...
Be warned: if you come along here, this tale has more questions than answers, twists and turns with a backdrop of mystery, more murk than...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
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One year ago....
Lately I think about one year ago a lot. This photo was taken then. And I remember bedtime, night after night, the same, always the...
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Feb 28, 20222 min read
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And She Understands Me...
Yesterday I took a deep breath and went to my car, newly fitted with a left foot gas pedal. We needed groceries for our time in Kenosha,...
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Feb 20, 20222 min read
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A Magic Trick...February 13, 2022
This week I learned a magic trick...yup, straight up magic. Now first, we all know that our minds can take us to magical places, our very...
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Feb 13, 20222 min read
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Angels and Archangels...February 4, 2022
When my tumor came, I fell to the ground. It seemed the most appropriate and real and true greeting for this visitor. But before all...
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Feb 5, 20222 min read
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No Longer and Not Yet...January 27, 2022
I would lie in the most perky way, if I said it didn't bother me to lose my hair. And I wear cropped pants now, in the frigid middle of...
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Jan 27, 20222 min read
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Yay for Me, Gold Star Day...January 21, 2022
Yay for me, gold star day...magic words, yes, indeed. And I promise you, my friends, they are balm to the soul. For she turned to these...
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Jan 21, 20222 min read
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Up Hills and Back Again...January 15, 2022
These visitors come, you know them too. Last week it was Time. Today it is Desire. And I remember her well, for she visits us all. She...
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Jan 15, 20222 min read
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The Most Abiding One...January 6, 2022
So Time's been everywhere lately. I can't seem to shake her, though I indulge her sometimes too. Hearing a whisper behind me, I look...
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Jan 6, 20221 min read
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Big Cheers to Us...December 24, 2021
Nearly one year ago today, I wrote about invitations, wondering what we would all be invited into this past year. I sort of miss that...
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Dec 24, 20212 min read
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A Ballerina and a Skiier...December 16, 2021
For many weeks, I have bragged to be a ballerina and a skiier...at least long ago and far away. So I twirled around, spun again, leaped...
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Dec 22, 20212 min read
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And Poof...December 1, 2021
I look around the clinic's waiting room, where people with every sort of "disability" go for care. They call it Courage Kenny...
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Dec 21, 20212 min read
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Space of a Second...November 25, 2021
Last year I would have said that I was a pretty grateful person, decently so at least. Adequate in my thanks. Then I lay on the couch...
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Dec 18, 20212 min read
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I Love The Moon...November 19, 2021
This week Peter and I pulled into the parking lot of our dentist's office. I sighed, looking in that fishbowl reception area.......
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Dec 17, 20211 min read
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We Are Beautiful...November 12, 2021
You are beautiful. I am beautiful. Yes, we are beautiful today and always and forever. This spring, I hardly looked at my body. ...
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Dec 16, 20212 min read
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We Are Enough...November 4, 2021
"I exist as I am." Walt Whitman reminds us. Yup, true, my heart whispers. I am enough. You too. We are enough. This week I read about...
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Dec 12, 20211 min read
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Where the Light Gets In...October 30, 2021
Rumi said that the wound is where the light enters us. Someone recently asked what I will take from this journey. What I know to be true....
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Nov 29, 20212 min read
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Laughter is Essential...October 27, 2021
Laughter is essential. A must, not a luxury. A couple days ago I wanted to show Evan my progress with my new leg. As I wobbled around,...
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Nov 29, 20211 min read
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You Are Not The First...October 22, 2021
I look at Evan here, a real life prince, and remember something important, an important something too. In July, my surgeon pulled his...
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Nov 20, 20212 min read
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