Strangeness. I'm fighting not to become someone different than I’ve been my entire life. Most people with the chronic disease I have retire. The doctor always talks about his patients who are lawyers and continue their practice, and name others…

Is there ever a moment in life - i mean, really ...think about it- is there ever really a single moment in life that is not strange? That we do NOT hear the unknown that surrounds us call, urging us…

As therapists say, You can feel lonely in a relationship with the wrong person. They're right. That's why I chose solitude over staying in a soul-less marriage. Our growing separation slowly sucked the air out of our home, and I…

"I promise you that if you didn't have that Neuropace, you'd be having much more severe seizures, so much so, sometimes you'd end up in the emergency room." Hard to believe. This epilepsy doctor, the head of the Epilepsy Department,…

There is no finer place than my bed. It is resplendent with the comforting curves made by my body. It is where my ship comes to harbor, to rest and be renewed. I nest there, using my husbands half of…

It was a miracle that I awoke at 11:00 a.m. this morning after working until 5:00 a.m. I knew it would be hot today in Eugene, Oregon, so if I wanted to walk in the woods, I'd have to get…

Maybe the friendship between Emma and Nicole starts out with cruelty from Emma toward Nicole. Maybe, after Nicole ignores her during the first supper that Annie, Nicole and Emma have together, Emma puts rocks in Nicole's bed. But, at this…

Odd….really. How these ideas spring up to write about, and then, even more unpredictably, how the right title flashes unbidden into my brain! Sometimes it surprises even me, the shock of which I usually acknowledge with an involuntary chuckle, as…

When the day's timer

Around five o’clock on a Monday in April 2021, the posts to the La Honda community message board began: “Anyone missing a peacock? Sighted on Canada Vista/Scenic on our driveway, then ventured off across the street behind our neighbor’s house.…

I'm a professional editor. That means I make writing better for a living 7.5 hours a day, 5 days a week. I consider this a blessing because I love my work. But it can also be a curse because I…

Mistakes, love and scrawling, that's what makes a friendship. It's not deliberate or coordinated, it happens. How does it start? How does the scrawling start? Sometimes there’s a moment. Like when I was the new kid in school, my 9th…