Beautiful World

I'm going to get a new hip. This is a good thing. I've been in incredible pain for the past two years as the cartilage in my hip h...

I'm an early riser. This doesn't mean I'm a morning person--just that I get up early. I can also stay up late with no problem. I...

A long time ago I was chatting with Tolkien Boy. I was telling him something--I don't remember what--but he stopped me and said, "I...

Actually, there probably won't be any other stories. I'm not talking about OTC pain relief. Sometimes I take those--except for ibu...

I have always been strong. Often it got me into trouble. Age six: I live in Ogden, UT. We have a very large tree in our front yard, with a...

This morning I sat in a square of sunshine on my living room floor and ate salted caramel gelato for breakfast. I did this because: 1. It...

This will be a very odd post, which means, of course, that I've been doing therapy stuff. This particular thing has been hanging around ...

Some people will suppose that this is because LDS people have been cautioned to use good judgment when choosing what they watch (and R-rated...

When I began blogging, this was something that greatly interested me. I wanted to find others in MOMs who were happy, as I was--people like ...

My reaction to my situation has been of interest to me. Prior to my "death sentence" diagnosis, when I felt pain in my hip I would...

About a month ago I noticed that the pain in my tendon was becoming pain in my outer hip and the muscles in my thigh and backside were in sp...

So I wrote a post not long ago, about finally understanding how human sociality works; how it's possible to love someone deeply and wish...

Yesterday: 1. I finished grading my last final. 2. I began working on the 18 credits of continuing education the IRS requires of me if I w...

The past four years I have been too tired to do anything except find the boxes where we store ornaments, tinsel, wrapping paper, lights, and...

I hesitate to write this post--especially after the things I said less than a month ago in this post. However, it's important to me t...

I bowed to my Inner Selfish yesterday. Thanksgiving brings a host of mixed feelings for me. I have good childhood memories of Thanksgivi...

I thank Thee, dear Lord, for the blue of the skies, For the green of the woods and fields, For the river that ripples and ...

The huge bout of PTSD symptoms has gone. As is normal, I feel rather drained and exhausted emotionally. Therapist believes that one of the r...

I know two women who were friends for nearly 25 years. They lived near each other and spent a great deal of time together for the first eigh...

Last Saturday I attended the funeral of a friend. This required me to return to the place where I grew up and to meet with people of my chil...

I went out of town for a few days. I wrote a post while I was gone--away from online access, for the most part--little telephone access--but...

I am running once again. Real running. My amazing fall down a steep, rocky hill, which managed to bloody nearly every part of my body and ...