Category: it’s all relative
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La Posada Resort, Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s wonderful to be traveling again! Our First Borns road trip days are behind us—long 8,9 hour driving days, multiple states and lots of stops are in our proverbial rear view mirror. But adventures by plane! That we can do. Between the three of us we have one…
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I’m listening to Heather Cox Richardson’s politics chat; she’s explaining that she doesn’t like to use the passive tense. The passive tense has no actor, the passive voice is vague, it’s not clear who is doing what. She takes this thought from school writing class to current…
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2025, What Do I Want From You? Revenge To be right Validation Information The truth. Clarity Unconfusion To be a little less alone. To be seen. To be undead. To be valued. To understand. To help. To be witness. To be witnessed. To grow. To have fun. To…
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91 Doctors appointments 54 Physical Therapy appointments 36 Mental Therapy appointments 19 scans 16 weeks medical leave 11 days in the hospital 4 days in the ICU 2 infections 1 sepsis 0 concerned calls, texts or emails from my sister and brother. The number of concerned calls, texts or…
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the kids and the Clauses take a coffee break “Can we just talk about how this is NOT a Dairy Queen?” It’s one of my favorite quotes of all time, from a visit to a local burger ice cream shack in small town Nebraska that everyone…
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The kids cos-playing Republicans at the hotel. I really try too hard. I try to do too much, too fast, too everything. But damn it, someone has to give this sorry-ass-ragtag-dysfunctional family a nice Thanksgiving! My siblings aren’t speaking to me, and that’s all I can say…
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Back in November, I developed Superior Vena Cava Syndrome, (SVCS) caused by the chemo port that was implanted only a few weeks prior. SVCS is deep vein thrombosis of the superior cava vein, the big fat juicy vein that drains from your head, neck, arms and upper chest into your…
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Trauma. A popular word. A challenging word. Who does it belong to? Who qualifies? How do we value all the pain, without making the suffering all the same value? Does it have subcategories? Is it a spectrum? I’ve struggled with the Trauma term, I don’t use the word for myself. It’s everywhere, for every range,…
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Just remembering that Valentine’s Day I was at the gyno for a LEEP procedure and the receptionist gave me a single rose… That Valentine’s Day I took the bus to Rocky Roccoco’s with my best friend and we got the heart shaped pizza and…
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These things I know about The Holidays: He will say “What did we get the kids?” You will buy too much and yet not get something “right”. There will either be no snow or all the snow. The cat/dog/hamster will barf/poop/die. You…
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