Somewhere over the weekend I lost my sense of humor. I wasn’t expecting to lose it and was caught off guard when I did. I had it on Saturday night while wearing Kyla’s ruby red slippers. I was feeling pretty good Sunday morning when Joe and I went for a walk. Sometimes it seems […]
I want a pink blow-up raft … to drift carefree …in a body of water I belong to … A pink blow-up raft floated into my consciousness during a recent therapy session. “When’s the first time you thought of a pink raft?” my therapist asked me with interest. We both recognized that the raft was […]
“I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.” – Danny McGoorty, Irish pool player My father wanted me to be a doctor, but I had a secret romantic idea that I wanted to be a peddler, either that or join the Peace Corp. The following entry was inspired by […]
I sit when others are standing…I lay when they sit…I walk when others are running…I stop while they keep going ~ Colleen When you have a health disorder that doesn’t fit into a category of known symptoms, that can’t be detected through an x-ray or blood test, and that has no name, the medical profession […]
There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; and the larger kind we feel for what we give.” ~ E. A. Robinson I’ve been trying to resolve the difference between passion and obsession. There’s something exciting about doing what I love (in my case writing) until I […]
AKA: Landing Like a kite swept up in the sea air, I was riding high during the week that my husband and I spent camping along the ocean on Hunting Island, South Carolina. Mid-week, I commented to him how much better I feel at the ocean. No stress. No afternoon naps, almost as if the […]
I used to think something was wrong with me, but now I just accept it. I’m not your hostess type. Burning pots on the stove and letting the housework go while being distracted by poetry is something I’ve always been upfront about and even confessed to in my wedding vows when my husband and I […]
I sit when others are standing…I lay when they sit…Arriving last and leaving first…I lean on walls to look less suspicious…I walk when others are running…I stop when they keep going… ~ Colleen My husband, Joe, headed down to Roanoke Sunday morning with a young man that he’s taken under his wing, to hear […]
AKA: My “Liar Liar” contest backfired! I recently posted 4 things about myself, one of which was a lie, and asked readers to guess which one. Most everyone picked “I went to Woodstock” as the lie. And they were right, but not right for the right reasons. They thought I wasn’t old enough to have […]
AKA: How Green is Your Grass? After my recent post, a day in my life in 25 easy steps (a description of my current typical day), I received a couple of comments that caused me to suspect that some readers might have the impression that my life is idyllic. I think things can sound […]
Screwing one’s head on right I’ve been dealing with something in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome family for the past 25 years, although, you would hardly know it. I can do everything anyone else can, just less of it. I get “sensory overload” if I don’t carefully space out my activities, and if I overdo it […]
Since my mid-twenties I have struggled with something – for lack of a better explanation – in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome family. My current Chinese Medicine Practitioner does not approve of the term. The emphasis on “chronic” might enable a self-fulfilling prophecy, he suggests. He might refer to my problem as “a yin deficiency”…or maybe […]
