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Corridors
Bald heads bobbing along the long corridors, diverting To rows, into cubicles, nodding To the RNs, making Small talk while turning From the bags That hold The poison. Continue reading
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A change is gonna come
WARNING: This post contains strong opinions, strong language, and a lot of CAPS. Read it at your own risk. As I write this, riots and protests are happening around the country. We, as a nation, are so tired. The dry tinder we have all become during the reign of the orange man has finally caught.… Continue reading
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Cancer in the time of Covid-19
You see in the movies that women have their best friends with them as they get the infusions, someone to talk to and play games with. Someone to comfort them. That’s not how it is in the time of Covid-19. Continue reading
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Life, as I know it
This is my last weekend of a rather normal life for awhile, and it’s going to be full of housecleaning, laundry, and general organization. It isn’t what I want to be doing, but it’s necessary. It’s going to take a lot of coffee to get through all of it! Since Stephanie died, I have been… Continue reading
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Advanced Directives and Other Fun Topics
This weekend I need to do a hard thing. I need to complete an advanced directive and living will so that I can make the decisions now rather than leave them for my loved ones later. Most likely it would be Sean making all the decisions, and I don’t want to leave him in that… Continue reading
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It’s cancer.
This is a sort of chronology of my diagnosis. I’ll be writing down my feelings about all this over time, as well as documenting my journey. Continue reading
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A bit of writing
Every now and then I come across a piece of my writing and it makes me think I could make a go of it. Don’t read anything into this passage. I wrote it in early 2019, probably in the middle of the night. It’s just a little sample. The Canyon He leaned over the iron… Continue reading
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Capital punishment.
Hello my friends. This is a long but important post. I hope you’ll read it through. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my values lately. In the course of my life, I’ve made many decisions that took me down this road or that one, but having been tossed by the waves for the… Continue reading
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They should be here.
Please give my friend Chrissi a read. Today would have been her daughter Sophie’s 12th birthday. Sophie and her little sister Madigan died in a fire 6 years ago, but Chrissi is bringing together the community to build a memorial park for her girls. Such beautiful girls. Such a sweet family. Life isn’t fair. 💔🎈💕… Continue reading
About Me
A writer and solitary soul in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
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