“Have I mentioned that you are way better than me at bbqing? I think it’s because you don’t catch the chicken on fire” That was a random text I sent to my boyfriend this afternoon. Carly and I had just returned form a spring time ten mile hike to Bluff Lake. It was such a gorgeous spring …
This is probably the most romantic story you have ever heard. My parents met changing bed pans in a nursing home. It was the seventies; most of my friends parents met at Woodstock or Southern California’s famous Venice Beach or one of those other places hippies loved in the seventies. Not my parents. They both …
Today our dogs tried to murder each other. I, of course, tried to stop them from murdering each other. In my effort to remove Candy’s teeth from Carly’s throat I somehow got bit. Do these dogs not realize that I am already in ridiculous pain?! I think I’m safer in the hospital! Luckily a few …
A year ago I was running half marathons. Today I’m using a walker to get around. I want to cry in frustration but I just tell myself I will get better, I will recover. I will hike again. I will run again. Meanwhile, here I sit in a hospital bed, two hours from my home, …
I can’t wait for the day when I can lace up my hiking boots with out cursing, sweating and being in miserable pain. Hopefully that day will be this weekend. I’m slated to have my postponed spine surgery on Thursday morning. I mean that is unless my moron of a claims adjuster can find another …