As I write this, I must tell you, a more beautiful day could not be had. The sun is shining from one of the bluest skies I’ve ever witnessed. The temperature, a pleasant 75°F. There’s a slight breeze that blows my hair in ticklish wisps across …
Tag: nonfiction
I Hate To Be The Bearer Of Bad News
One day, in the beginning of this whole mess, I was lying in my bed anxiously awaiting a call from my oncologist. It’s a funny thing when you’re awaiting biopsy results. You want them, but you also kind of don’t. The phone finally rang. I was …
An Ode To A Broken Body
We had a snow, a respectable snow even by non-Floridian standards, and it was magical. Snow is beautiful, beyond its stunning visual display, it sounds divine. The noise it makes is almost imperceptible. The gentle patter of microscopic crystals stacking one on top of the other …
The 10 Things I Won’t Be Doing In 2018
I bought a label maker once and it changed my entire life. I labeled homeschool supplies and shelves and cabinets and notebooks. I even used it to develop an entire system to keep all my plastic containers sorted by size and use. Then I ran out …
Confessions Of A Christmas Turncoat
Every Christmas of every single year of my life I’ve had a real Christmas tree. This year is different. This year I’ve changed my tune. This year I’m going rogue. This year we’re getting a fake tree. Now, in the past, it’s quite possible I’ve had …
A South Floridian’s Guide To Moving North
My people hail from New England. My hand to God, I had an uncle that was a lobsterman and looked just like the Gorton’s fisherman. My stock are a rustic people. I, however, was raised in south Florida because after my parents got married my father …
A Year Ago And A Few Days
Illness doesn’t come with an instruction manual, especially when that illness is rare. Even I didn’t truly understand what my disease was, how it functioned, what my risk factors were, how it was best treated, or why I have it until years into my diagnosis when …
