Despite the subtitle of the Wormlips Blog, I really don’t think it’s all about me. Well, at least not all the time. One way it’s not all about me is that Cheryl has been suffering for the past two weeks from a particularly brutal South Asian disease of uncertain diagnosis. I get to see her when we video-chat on Skype. She looks pretty even when she’s sick, but she does look very sick at the […]
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Battling age
Testing, Day Two
TEST #3 The situation: Immediately following today’s face-hair-ripping appointment I met up with my acupuncturist, her hubby and Seamus their hound. Cheryl had told me they’re exceptionally fit (the hound possibly less so), which made me a little anxious. I hate holding people up. But part of me thought, “Come on … how fast can they really be?” Man, are these guys in good shape. Man, they’re in really good shape. I mean, man. Our […]
Read moreTesting, Day One
This weekend I’ll make the final decision about the Nepal trip by subjecting myself to a barrage of experiments. TEST # 1 The Hypothesis: My right heel won’t hurt too much during the usual hike up Marin Avenue. The Experiment: Looking toward the SF Bay from my bedroom window, my keen nature-girl eye could see that the light rain would soon dissipate. Waterproofing myself, I set off. I vowed that I wouldn’t cheat this time: […]
Read moreDay of Reckoning
This uncertainty has gone beyond ridiculous. Do I rest my foot or exercise it? Pack or wait? Keep reading about Nepal or start researching a geographically level destination? Even work is affected: To tackle Task XIVa2.7WL or skip to Item PN1426b47.935? I ask everyone: What would you do? Would you go or would you stay? At the end of my appointment with my ob-gyn today, he asked if I had any questions. “Yes, as a […]
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