Well, it is day three post surgery and my face hurts. I can’t say anything about it though, as in my home uttering the phrase, “My face hurts,” would undoubtedly elicit a response akin to, “Well I’d think so, it is killing me!” Facial swelling and new areas of soreness inside my left eye and […]
TV and Smoothies Help with Recovery from Outpatient Surgery.
Friday was a unique day. Woke up at 5 AM and was at the surgery reception desk at the University Med Center signing in at 6 AM for out patient septoplasmy, which is surgery on the septum. Yawn. I know, boarrrr-ring (Does anyone remember Jo Anne Worley on Laugh-In, or is my age showing?) Check-in […]
Women, Natural Disasters, and Economic Reconstruction
Fire, floods, and massive tornadoes – this spring is one of the first truly “different” seasons that screams climate change. I found this old post and thought it worth re-posting on the day I’m having my septum moved, corrected, or whatever. The Women’s Edge Coalition released an article in 2005 (after Katrina) that highlighted how […]
Unfolding Another Level of the Onion
Unfolding Another Level of the Onion Once I conceptualized healing as the closing of a wound. Then I was told to visualize healing as the opening of a bud to expose new layers of petals on a blossom. I now use the peeling away of layers of an onion as my visual model for conceptualizing […]
Empty Nests or Out on a Limb
Most nests are tucked into branches reinforced with twigs and constructed with love, threads, blades of grass and found bits of ribbon and string. When the structures are no longer housing progeny, mother and father birds find themselves hanging out on a limb with spare energies, once directed further down the limb, swirling around them. […]
A Told You So Moment from the "ME" Generation
“Boomer volunteerism has increased during the past few decades. The volunteer rate for young boomers, ages 46 to 57, is 30.9 percent, significantly higher than the 25.3 percent recorded by the same age group in 1974 and the 23.2 percent recorded in 1989.” — PittsburghLive.com So how do you like them apples? Looks like we […]