Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Tag: Health

  • From Book Riot’s list of…

    Buy my book! The Favorite by Lucinda Watson  This memoir in verse is brimming with insight and wisdom from Watson’s 71 years of being alive. It’s divided into three parts, which explore the author’s thoughts during different periods of her life. It explores a child’s innocence and curiosity in the first part. It goes on to

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  • Take a Breath

    Take a Breath

    I’m trying very hard to do something that I never learned to do as a child and that is to control my emotions. There are a few programs in schools these days teaching kids how to modulate their emotions. If they feel angry or sad or frustrated they are taught how to take a breath

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  • Summer School

    Summer School

    So I am a sucker for an Instagram reel that is sentimental and tonight I watched one about a female pilot who climbed into a souped up amazing, powerful, beautiful Air Force plane, and all around her the men who sent her off were high-fiving her. I found myself in tears watching this. I’m not

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  • Why has Trump stopped supporting…

    AI Overview While it’s difficult to pinpoint an exact percentage of the population that visits national parks, AAA’s survey shows that 85% of Americans have visited at least one national park, and most consider them a “must-see” vacation destination.  Here’s a more detailed look at national park visitation:

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  • Go to the woods

    Go to the woods

    When things seem bad and the world is incomprehensible, fires burn, and people rage, head to the woods. Stand under a tree. Walk slowly. When you leave, you’ll be a different person.

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  • Award

    Nobel Peace Prize The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group today “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” The organization

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  • Retirement

    I like my sister‘s house. I’d like to tell her that I am moving in there. She can just think of me as one of the other farm animals. I could be a baby donkey or maybe a tiny horse, but I wouldn’t want to be a chicken because laying eggs would be exhausting. I

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  • Spine Mine

    Spine Mine

    Spinal Surgery     Eight weeks ago I had spine surgery and it took 7 hours to make me less fragile but I am still fragile. I told the anesthesiologist I was anxious and he wrote I had a “psychiatric disorder” in my chart. He had black, thick hair and sat back in his seat

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  • Brain Chemistry

    Brain Chemistry

    I have a problem with abandonment. There’s no reason to ask myself why. It’s perfectly clear to me. I’ve had it all my life. I remember when my mother was dropping me off at nursery school when I was four and I told her I didn’t want to get out of the car. She said

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  • Scoliosis and Stenosis: a journey

    Three weeks ago I had a seven hour surgery on my spine. Initially, it was supposed to be 3 to 4 hours. As the surgery began, it was clearer to my doctor that it was more complicated and would take a longer time. The long and the short of it are that I am very

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