Hi Darling Ones, One minute it is the summer of 1997 and you’re sitting on the cool stone porch steps of your college best friend’s post-college rental smoking Camel Lights. It’s Sunday morning, though it…
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On Slim Dunlap & the Financial Realities of a Stroke
Oh Darling Ones, Today I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind. I started the day tweeting about the Slim Dunlap family moving sale and ended it losing another client….
30 Years in Exile
Hey Darling Ones, Last night I started Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer and it’s giving me fizzy, Pop Rocks brain in the best way. This is wonderful because I’m bored to death of…
Four Songs Taking My Mind Off My Woes
Dear Darling Ones, Since the stroke is on my mind every second of every day, I seek out things that make me forget it for even a moment. Not forget. That’s not a thing that…
Stroke Me Day 26: The Modern Leper
Hi Darling Ones, The thing that sticks with me the most from the 11 hours I spent in the Emergency Room the day I had my stroke is asking the MRI technician if I could…