• Three Days Later–the Journey

    Three days ago I had a gastric sleeve surgery. What that means is that they take out part of your stomach. It also means not being able to eat much and figuring out the new signals from your body. But…

  • Personal Announcement

    About six months ago, my doctor recommended a gastric sleeve operation for me to lose weight and get my pre-diabetes under control. I totally said no and nearly had a tantrum. It seemed tantamount to saying that I’m lazy, that…

  • The update of the Saturday

    I am knitting some of my Xmas presents. Unfortunately, I have done several projects, but am way behind. Stir in my wrist is hurting on one arm, and my “tennis” elbow is acting up on the other, and I’m going…

  • Dodging and Not Dodging Bullets

    It’s been a difficult couple of weeks. My husband’s uncle fell and ended up in the hospital. Over the course of the following weeks, he’s had surgery and complications and then things looked promising and hopeful, and then bleak, then…

  • Pardon the dust

    I’ve been still trying to deal with so much this summer I haven’t been here much. Primarily, my parents had a house fire and we’ve been trying to get things taken care of, but a major problem is that the…

  • Running fast

    If I did run, which I don’t, I’d be running fast. Still revising, still helping the folks with rebuilding stuff, still driving kids around. But! Been reading good books. Having a good time with Helen Harper’s Slouch Witch and the…

  • Running fast

    If I did run, which I don’t, I’d be running fast. Still revising, still helping the folks with rebuilding stuff, still driving kids around. But! Been reading good books. Having a good time with Helen Harper’s Slouch Witch and the…

  • Running fast

    If I did run, which I don’t, I’d be running fast. Still revising, still helping the folks with rebuilding stuff, still driving kids around. But! Been reading good books. Having a good time with Helen Harper’s Slouch Witch and the…

  • Running fast

    If I did run, which I don’t, I’d be running fast. Still revising, still helping the folks with rebuilding stuff, still driving kids around. But! Been reading good books. Having a good time with Helen Harper’s Slouch Witch and the…

  • Running fast

    If I did run, which I don’t, I’d be running fast. Still revising, still helping the folks with rebuilding stuff, still driving kids around. But! Been reading good books. Having a good time with Helen Harper’s Slouch Witch and the…