Hello Darling Ones, Happy last day of 2023. I hope the door hits it in the ass on its way out. This has not been my year. I’ve spent the day mindlessly getting my house in order. I put a new air filter in the furnace, watered the Sadness Garden, and other minor tasks I ignored while my family was here for three weeks. The day has also been spent wildly swinging through bitter jealousy and utter gratitude. The jealousy…
Hi Darling Ones, How goes your holiday season? Mine started early this year when Sister #2 arrived on December 10 to help me around the house and hang out in Minnesota visiting her MN friends. Max arrives tonight. Jaycie comes in tomorrow and then we’ll be holidaying it up — a Very St. Martin Christmas, Christmas, Boxing Day Lunch, and Rock & Roll Bookclub Dirty Santa. Everyone leaves on December 31st and by then I’ll be ready for a long…
Hey Darling Ones, I desperately wish I were the kind of person who, after going through something something tragic, like, you know, a debilitating stroke that leaves you basically disabled and wondering if you’ll ever get your life & body back would come out the other side as a person who is relentlessly positive and encourages you to find joy in the beauty of two kittens asleep on a yellow sweater. I want to be the kind of person who…
Hello Darling Ones, Today is December 6th. I’m exactly 51.5 years old and it’s been nine months since the shitty, shitty stroke. Nothing is new. My vision is still garbage. My brain still thinks my right side weighs a ton and is convinced every second of every day that I’m about to fall. I teeter on the brink of financial ruin. I’m working to accept my limitations and celebrate all the things I can do. Lexapro helps with the money…
Hi Darling Ones, Yesterday I graduated Occupational Therapy. Or as K, my therapist said, “we reached the end of our journey.” Then we both made puke faces. She got me. Before my journey ended, she gave me all the tests she gave me back in July. I did much better. That puzzle I couldn’t finish in four minutes? I completed it in like 90 seconds. I would have done better, but my tremor was all shook up. According to K…
Hello Darling Ones, Without a doubt 2023 is and continues to be the most difficult year of my life. It puts eighth grade, freshman year of college, COVID lockdown, and all the death of 2022 to shame. And at the same time it is the most gratifying, proudest, and loving year of my life. When I think about the way people have stepped up to support me through my stroke recovery and the diabetes and retinopathy and the arthritic knees,…
