When I saw Susie the other day, I asked for a few clippings from her garden out front. I brought them home and made gelli prints. That big green leaf is not what you think it is. My wonderful doctor recently put me on a new medicine (Gabapentin) to alleviate some of the nasty effects of my nerve damage, and to help with another issue. I began taking it ten days ago and it wasn’t […]
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Battling age
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My latest farmers’ market haul—potatoes, peaches, peanut sauce, pasta, and lots of things that didn’t begin with ‘p”—brought the weight of my backpack to 17.2 pounds, which is a lot when you’re walking half a mile and the pack is funky. I don’t know what on Earth possessed me to buy, at considerable expense, a pound of freshly made stinging nettle raviolis. I’m scared to eat them, having been wounded and traumatized by these same […]
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My puzzle binge is finally winding down as I complete my fifth and final jigsaw, this one made by a company named in my honor. The fun never stops around here. Yesterday it was another appointment with the periodontist who did her usual thing of poking my face with pointed metal tools to test my numbness, five weeks in. The good thing: As before, I was able to feel it some. The bad thing: I […]
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Early every morning, on the heels of the previous hours’ nightmares, my first moments of consciousness are heavy with a sense of dread and fear. Partly it’s a hangover from those dreams and partly an anticipation of what unpleasantness the new day may hold. Often I can’t remember details of these nocturnal storylines, but have only an awareness of their generalized anxiety. On awakening today, though, the plot did come back to me: a large […]
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