2015 has been a year of firsts for me. My first time sleeping in an airport. ( Honolulu Airport New Years Eve) 2015 was also the year I learned to swim ( in Australia at Manly Beach, the same beach where there was a shark sighting at the same time) And 2015 was the first …
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, …