Category Archives: REALITY

Today I enter my 60th year of doing business.  Starting it out with pills other than vitamins.  Celebrating with chocolate cherries and fine dining tonight.  And sending out submissions on writings.  Forty-nine was yesterday, when I scribbled out a novel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Preparing myself for tomorrow; two meetings, one likely aggravating, the other likely fun.  Deep breathing, drawing in the good clean air of life to fill every brain cell with soothing reason, quelch all the bile that pools in my stomach, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Big bulky burgandy leather chair can hardly fit through doorways.  Tanklike TV sets hard to grip.  Chairs, chairs, and more chairs.  Collections quite classic, other queerly cute. Things that’d like to stay in place, inanimate for a reason; if only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So the immediate serious problems with health issues seem to be minor or fixable, though stress has evidently taken a toll. I hopped up on a treadmill–the cardiologist had to show me how to walk on it–but not before I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, I’m glad I walked into the house before five p.m. and saw that the cardiologist’s office had called.  Took a deep breath and called them back and got the good news that x-rays, ultrasound, and EKG’s showed nothing obvious … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today I saw my liver on the landscape of the moon.  Saw the flash of heart beats, heard them pound the blood through arteries in swishing sounds like waterfalls, watched a bright red thread of life wind itself away.  Today … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finished Longinus, hit Part 2 of A Clockwork Orange, and read one of the two (!)  stories in a 2004 issue of Prairie Schooner.  Dumped all the jelly out, rewashed the jars, mixed up a magic pectin potion to rejell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not in the best of moods.  My jelly won’t jell and the sock on my left food keeps twisting around into a lump. Continue reading →

…that you can’t quit coffee cold turkey?  The doctor tells me that you can have withdrawal.  So I’m vacillating between changing what I drink in the shop vs. at home, and going decaf first and gradually into Postum, Piro, or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s always been a lucky day for me.  Today sort of followed suit, I suppose, though the luck’s not as big a hit as it once used to be.  Shedding the fear of one worry for a lesser one, now … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lord knows I’ve had my fill of lawyers lately, and now it seems to be going along the doctorly route.  Catching Jim up on his regular appointments, held off till we got back insurance.  And me, four years of putting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Do you think it’d be okay if I kept my knee-socks on for a gynecological exam? Interesting insight among my friends into choice of physicians.  Most seem to prefer a female gynecologist.  Personally, I’m only used to and therefore more … Continue reading → Continue reading →