I am a phenomenal dancer. I feel the music and shake it up like nobody’s business. When I’m home and the curtains are drawn, the lights are off, and the music is cranked up, I get my groove on. In my imagination. In the real world, I’m a pathetic dancer. So pathetic if you saw [...]

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In a little more than a week I’m going into the hospital for one final surgery. This means that beginning on Tuesday, September 22 I’ll be taking a break from blogging for two weeks during the initial phase of post-surgical recovery. If you’d like to follow updates on my progress and other random nuggets of [...]

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During the week following surgery I had done little more than sleep on the couch, sleep on the recliner,  sleep on the bed and gulp down pain medication (hence all the aforementioned napping), so when D left one morning to run errands I thought enough was enough; it was about time I get up and [...]

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I confess that the post-surgical recovery process has taken a little longer and been a little more intense than I anticipated but I’m well on the mend and am enjoying feeling better with every passing day. The past couple days have made me feel like I’m getting back to my usual self which, depending on [...]

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Start with the photographs. Words will follow. I have a new love. Hiking. It only took one short trail along the California Coast for me to be wooed and now I’m hooked. I have new trail shoes, a daypack with frame, and my hiking shorts have pockets within pockets. I have a GPS and map [...]

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You’ll notice the comment section on this blog post is closed. I’ve done so intentionally because I don’t want you to comment on what I’m going to write in this post. You’ve been more than generous in the past in offering encouraging and grateful words of SisterFriends Together and I don’t want you to think [...]

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Have you ever had so many thoughts banging around in your head with so many feelings behind them that you couldn’t find a way to sort through them all? This was one of those days for me. I sat at my computer all morning and into the afternoon with the intention of adding a post [...]

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. Oops. My bad. I forgot to mention that D and I were heading off on a short summer vacation which explains the scanty blogging and absence of replies to any emails you might have sent me during the past few days. I really do apologize for that but I thought if I told you [...]

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For years one of my most cherished childhood possessions was a Christian novelty item, a chintzy white porcelain six-inch plate with a picture of Jesus painted in the center; the light-skinned, blue-eyed, wavy blonde-haired, semi-smiling version of Jesus. Similar renderings of which could be found in my framed needlepoint wall hanging of the Good Shepherd [...]

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D and I were wandering around a clothing store today and as we headed out to our car D said, “You’re smaller than the other woman who was in the store.” [If you follow me over on Facebook or on my other blog you'll know that both D and I have lost a significant amount [...]

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