His cowboy boots were the first thing I noticed, how they didn’t really go with the ordinary khakis sticking out from under his white, knee-length doctor coat. I was there in his neurology office to find out why I was seeing jaggedy lines in my […]
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The hand-off
It’s always struck me as kind of awful to be grateful for what I have because someone else has it so much worse – a viewpoint often referred to as perspective. For instance, when I was told I would need to start wearing a lift in […]
Cocoa Restaurant, part II
After our fun, we get down to business. We are working in the modality of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the only approach that has ever gotten close to truly straightening anything out. All the others — cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, straight-up talk therapy, biofeedback — […]
Givver here
I ran into Denyse and Franny in the waiting room of a women’s center, one of those fancy medical practices that has a coffee set-up. Franny was wandering around the way kids do, poking into this and that, seeing if there was anything of interest. […]
The creative
Mom got the first inkling when she fell into the flower garden for no reason, which really just meant scary unknown reason. The knowing took a long time, while in the meantime the inklings started stacking up. Parkinson’s is notoriously resistant to diagnosis so it […]
Plum
Something in my mind said plum so I circled back home on my green Schwinn 10-speed once again. I’d already done this 7, 8, 9 times. It was a beautiful summer afternoon, not too hot for an aimless cruise around town, and those plums were […]
Beautiful
We were in the outfield goofing off, neither of us serious sports girls. Plus, this was Phys. Ed and we had no choice but to be there. Still, we had our pride and when a ball comes flying who doesn’t want to catch it? A […]
Open border
I. I heard the shouts and shrieks then saw the bobbing head of a girl come rising up over the hill into view, inch-by-bouncing inch. She was bounding pell mell in my direction, laughing and calling back to others who weren’t yet visible. Turning up […]
Where we are
So long ago, a lifetime ago, we had Dick and Elizabeth over for dinner. After dinner we re-located to the sunroom porch, an after-thought room which was kind of sliding off the side of the house. Settling into the slant, we re-found our way back […]
Thank you, crazy man
That Sunday morning I got up, did the breakfast thing then strapped on my fanny pack with my standard fanny pack thought: I wish I was cool enough not to care I’m wearing a fanny pack or cool enough to carry it off with the […]
Hey girly girl
I noticed an older girl had taken up with Zoe, my granddaughter, at the playground, trailing Zoe’s erratic energy blasts as she shot from one feature to another in an outwardly random pattern of her own inner direction. What was in it for a girl […]
Negative space
Not an official blog post; just placeholder #1 to fill out the grid block design since I don’t want to have one lonely single tooth post on the landing page. Still, I can’t help but help myself to a few words since the placeholder is […]
Be cool. 