Atari dreams
Last night, I dreamed about video games from my childhood. I woke up smiling - I had just won a game of Pong on my friend’s Atari. I...
Why not me?
Some people appear baffled when I say that I am lucky. They expect me to bemoan my health challenges with "Why me?" I have never seen myself as a victim, even as a young girl with severe ulcerative colitis, and then an ostomy, I thought "Why not me?"
This attitude persisted into adulthood when I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and then Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Now, in my 50's, living a vibrant life, I have decided to share my stories and just completed my memoir. Will I get published? I'm not sure, but "Why not me?"
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Hearts and Crafts
During the pandemic, Crayola and I have become reacquainted. At the beginning of lockdown, I was cleaning up our cupboards and came upon...
The nose knows…
“Oh gross, the car stinks!” I hadn’t realized the auto was odorous. My nose was acclimatized; my senses happy, bordering on delighted....
Warding off isolation
“The feelings in your book are how I feel now, during COVID!” Ironically, if it weren’t for COVID, I wouldn’t have found the time or...
It's a shame...
Shame. It’s an emotion that we don’t talk about a lot. When I think back to nursery school we learned the song “If you’re happy and you...
So what's with the kaleidoscope image?
I am a great believer in the power of perspective. When I was 11 years old and deathly ill in the hospital my aunt Jill gave me a...
