This afternoon I am going to another funeral. Too many, this year. This time, not a grandfather in his late seventies, sad as that loss was. A mother in her forties, leaving teenaged children. That's the third one we've lost this year. A veritable epidemic of young women, taken all too soon, by the same … Continue reading Another One Gone
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Team Pink Couch Potato Lizard Brain
I am the luckiest girl in the world. The writer Holly Jahangiri is my friend and soul sister. Holly recently underwent a radical mastectomy and DIEP reconstruction. She has not quite finished the process - she says she currently has Barbie boobs. She has more surgery scheduled in October to make her look like a … Continue reading Team Pink Couch Potato Lizard Brain
I beat the Lizard Brain!
I know such victories are fleeting and the battle must be fought every day, but each time my frontal lobes manage to shut down my amygdala, I feel the need to crow from the rooftops like a rooster.So, today is Wednesday. As most of you are getting tired of seeing on Facebook and Twitter, I'm … Continue reading I beat the Lizard Brain!