Recently I invited someone close to me to share in a vision with me for my future as a writer and artist. Being admirably honest and intensely specific, they said of my prospects: "It is like a speck of an inkling of a possibility." That was Sunday. On Monday I returned to my desk and … Continue reading A Speck of an Inkling of a Possibility
For more than a year I have suggested to my healthcare providers that I'm depressed because I sleep so much, not--as had been presumed--that I sleep because I'm depressed. The doctors have listened. But the wheels of healthcare churn slowly through a miasma of mucky insurance and murky interdepartmental harangues. It is four days shy … Continue reading Sleepy
I plan life to be smooth, if curved, and sensical. Like this: I prepare for a life far more messy and nonlinear. Often, my life resembles the second wire spool: knotted, circling back on itself, with periods of thick and periods stretched thin. The year of our Lord two thousand nineteen has been no different. … Continue reading End of Year
In late July Edmond Animal Shelter announced it was out of beds for dogs. I had flirted with the notion of adoption for months, but my husband was on an entirely different page. So I did what any self-respecting non-practicing lawyer would do: I built a case. I need a service dog. Those are expensive … Continue reading Puppy Love
The tough make bone broth? In Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance by Julia Cameron, the author says: When we remember that we have a daily life, we begin to find our grounding....It is our job, faced with impending changes, to continue to husband the life that we have got. She wrote of career changes, … Continue reading When the Going Gets Tough
