I got a message on Friday on my cell phone from my neurosurgeon at Mayo. He had looked at my latest MRI (we had called to let him know that it was coming and that there was something that was causing some concern on it) So, the message, in brief was that he thought it was a flair but that he recommends having another MRI to make sure. ( Read more... )

Had a three month MRI on Monday morning.  Getting the MRI done was, as usual, no big deal.  The MRI techs always struggle with finding a vein that will cooperate to give me the contrast injection.  They ended up using the one in my left hand this time which always hurts like nothing else.  Tech guy told me that’s because the skin on your hands is ( Read more... )

I haven't written an update in quite a while.  I guess I haven't had anything much to say.  Sorry about that ( Read more... )

In honor of my father's 70th birthday I wrote a story.  This story is real and all charaters depicted do exist.  There is a chance that the story has been embelished.  I had major brain surgery a year ago and cannot be expected to remember EVERYTHING with perfect clarity any longer ( Read more... )

The way things worked that year, none of dad’s usual group of hunting buddies was able to go out so he asked me to accompany him.  Everyone knows that a 13 year old girl who has never shot a rifle or driven a vehicle is the best one to take along deer hunting.  They are always calm under pressure, and are quiet as church mice.

So, dad and I ( Read more... )

Later on in the month of November of my 13th year it was the day after Thanksgiving.  The day after Thanksgiving, as everyone knows, is a holiday known as Tryptophanimus.  It is normally celebrated by reheating leftover turkey, stuffing, gravy and mashed potatoes.  Once this is consumed, the traditional napping begins.  A traditional Tryptophanimus ( Read more... )

I've not written an update in a while.  My goodness ( Read more... )

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare ( Read more... )

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

The world is powered by passionate people, powerful ideas, and fearless action. What’s one ( Read more... )

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live.

1. Set a timer for fifteen minutes.
2. Write the story that has to be written.

I would not want to spend those precious minutes writing a story ( Read more... )