Day 14 in nablopomo blogging month, day 5 after septoplasty surgery. The headache I’ve had for several days is lessening but my heart is heavy. People come and go in every person’s life, but no where is this more evident than in a college town. Tucson is a military town, a tourist town, and a […]
How Much Blog Bling is Too Much
I’m trying to learn about this social blog thing. I’m not very social. I love people. I love a good joke. I have blogs I read because I enjoy the blog author’s perspective. I have been a political and social justice blogger for years. I have floated at the edge of blogging networks made up […]
Recovery Reading with Margaret Atwood
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 […]