Had two beers and two cupcakes for dinner. I am so bachin’ it. ************************************ In other, related news, I am once again putting together a New Life Plan that involves being thinner and more energetic, eating better and exercising more. This is my pattern, the ups and the downs in weight, the commitment to diet…
Category: Navel Gazing (and I Don’t Mean Oranges)
Trajectory
Do you ever feel like you’ve been gently, insistently redirected? Herded. Shepherded. There is a distinction, but in either case, direction from an outside source is implicit. A sheep-i-ness is implied. I have let the slings and arrows of daily existence make me go baaa. I sometimes feel my youth slipping away from me, which…
Burdens – Part 1 of a 3 Part Series
*Preliminary note – this ends well.* So if there is one lesson I want you to take from today’s post, it is this. If you go to the doctor, and the check-in nurse wants to take your blood pressure on an arm where you had blood drawn 48 hours ago (and you had blood drawn…
Thoughts After Two Weeks of Looking Respectable
I have worn makeup and accessories – bracelet and necklace and watch, oh my! – for going on three weeks now, excluding just ONE day in honor of my near death-by-gastrointestinal-distress experience. At this very moment, I am sitting at school finishing up my reading whilst wearing (in addition to my ball and cha– I…
Fini
A finite number of pictures will be taken of each of my children, this I know. One day, their lives will end, and there will be no more. It’s an odd way to think about death, but as I watch Madeline Alice Spohr’s parents try to negotiate their lives without her, and I see them…