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I really love my electric heating pad. I cannot imagine my life without it. I hope when I go to a nursing home I’ll be able to use it still.  I also love our electric blankets. Everyone has a s...

Yeah, I know I have been posting more often. Having the time to do so is such a gift! I am more relaxed than I have been in so long. I can’t remember when the last time was. Three or four year...

Emotional resilience is often talked about like it comes from big breakthroughs or life-changing decisions. In reality, it is usually built in quiet, ordinary moments. Small daily reflections...

I can feel myself, my true self - slowly disappearing. I'm cold and distant. She reaches out to hug and I barely respond. I give her just enough to think I am. She shuts down when I initiate in...

Im writing this entry so late because we just got home from my daughter's softball game. Her team had to play three games tonight because of yesterday's cancelled game so her team was out there ...

About a year has passed now. I remember the pain I felt in my chest for months when I lost Zoey, and at this point I thought I'd have something more poignant to say about forgetting her face...

Of a book really. Who would have thought what happened today. In the morning at work I noticed that again that fight with Kevin in Nepal back in February, for God's sake, came up again in my min...

If the Fourth of July is Independence Day, surely Thanksgiving is Codependence Day. The older we get, the more we realize how much being “gifted kids” screwed us up. If we live until 96,...

as i stare out my window... into the bricks across the way... i have to wonder if this is life without her... perhaps i was the one who died... perhaps this is hell... maybe she's out there...

Over the past few weeks I’ve been running surprisingly hot in Texas Hold’em tournaments. Cashed in three small ones — two one-table sit-n-gos and one three-table event. Nothing huge, but after t...

****Oh my cod, there’s new developments! In bed last night, husband told me that he’s been into the convenience store that SnakePiss works at, before coming home. K was on the tills and it’s al...

I swear on everything that that was the most fucked up illness, the most sick I have ever been in my entire life. Ughhh. I was feeling back to normal my first Sunday back home. The PICC line is ...

It was a decent day. My daughter went to the lake with them, got ice cream and hung out. She brought her to my work and then we came home. I was kind of annoyed that she didn’t just bring her ho...