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I am entering the hospital again this morning. After back-to-back pneumonias over the past few months, with three different rounds of antib...

Thanks to Tammi's valiant efforts to keep the fridge and pantry organized, I now have a chart I can refer to when asking someone to loca...

Deeep into the rabbithole this afternoon, and a slow resurfacing all on my own. One of the notable advantages to being "retired...

My Thanksgiving plans are small-scale and in the comfort zone between avoidance and obligation. It was never a reliably "good" h...

(Photo at the edge of the Lea Marshes, London, taken by Margot Williams, April 2011) I woke up at 2:45 (after a 4-hr REM cycle and an Archi...

Yesterday after lunch I got a message from Betty at HAND (the agency which provides my caregivers) saying they had received a list of names...

(I wrote a shorter version of this after midnight today at my Facebook page, but decided to bring it here because processing through my rece...

(Snowmageddon photo by Alexis Glenn.) We all have worst nightmares about our bodies -- what we think maybe we couldn't bear happening ...

My suggestions for new Olympic sports: (1) Contestants must have cruciate ligaments of one knee removed entirely, other knee without carti...

("Blue Moon", photo copyrighted to Oak S. LoGalbo) Some of the morning routine is under my belt -- the Dinah greeting and dispe...

(Buttermilk pie) it was a tough night because i was thirsty and i'd run out of all bottled water, juice, or even soda near my bed. b...

(Sappho, painting by Charles Mengin, 1877 -- hat-tip to Ian at Dykes To Watch Out For for this image) Thanks those of you keeping tabs ...

(Maggie Jochild at Bean Hollow Beach near Pescadero, California, i980) HUNGRY When Liza found out I had lost 85 pounds over the last t...

(Westward IV screen shot) In my e-mail today is an offer from Sandlot Games to pre-purchase the upcoming release of their game Westward ...

(Maggie and Nilmoni cropped from larger photo, 1958 Kolkata, India) Too long for Twitter, again: Dinah prowled and wailed every half hour...