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Hullo, hullo, hullo!
I'm seeing some lovely end-of-year posts from friends here on LJ, so I'm going to do the same... as well as resolve to come back and post here more often. G+ just hasn't caught on with the people I want to connect with, FB is too oriented towards small bites (taste great but less filling), and I really need to be able to sit down and produce longer ( Read more... ) -
Assorted things
The last few weeks have been a mishmosh... ( just want to do a braindump and get feedback if anyone has anything to say. ) -
The Mom Quilts
My mother passed away three years ago. ( And here's a story about what happened next. ) -
Animal-related guilt
When I got Bill, I also got his two cats (littermates, about a year old). I've never been a cat person, but we seemed to reach a place of co-existence. When they had problems, I did research to figure out how to fix them. I don't think of them as my cats, but they made Bill happy so I did what I could to keep them healthy and content ( Read more... ) -
Musings on gluten
So... my mother had a constellation of symptoms that eventually killed her. One of the worst things, for her, was the constant brain fog that clouded her focus (she was a nursing practitioner and had finished law school... her brain meant a LOT to her).
When she was towards the end of her life, I asked her physician if she could possibly have ( Read more... ) -
What am I missing out on?
Sometimes I think I missed out on some How to Be an Adult class in school somewhere. I never really learned to use makeup, or shave anything, or deal with clothes (buying them, matching them, wearing them so they don't look like burlap sacks)... I think I just missed the bus entirely on certain ubiquitous life skills. Most of the time, I really don ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts about fat acceptance
A friend was blogging about her own struggle with body image and fat and food, and I wrote a long response that I wanted to hang on to.
( I know this isn't everybody's cup of tea, so I'm tucking it behind a cut... )