May 28, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — WORK!
When I thought I needed medication, my physical therapist instead provided motivation.
Category: Writing
May 27, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — PLAY!
When chronic pain hits, brain fog descends. What do you do when you can’t concentrate?
May 22, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — BELIEVE!
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
May 21, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — LAUGH!
Laughter is the best medicine . . . unless you’re constipated, or worse, you have to use a medical toilet; or worse — are you kidding me? — there’s nothing worse.
May 20, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — ENDURE!
You learn many lessons following a tough surgery; lessons that teach you how to better ENDURE, LAUGH, BELIEVE, PLAY, WORK and RESOLVE. Today’s surgical lesson: ENDURE!
February 4, 2025
Winter Wander Land
Nature always listens, but in winter it seems to listen more deeply.
January 30, 2025
Freeze the Day!
When it comes to sub-freezing temperatures, I am the frozen one, thanks to water pipes that chronically freeze.
January 16, 2025
Avenging Jem
Discovering Jem’s body was not the only shock I experienced within the hour of his death.
January 15, 2025
Blessing Jem
My beloved cat, Jem — God’s good creature — offered glad company and left a lingering imprint.
