Portage

WordPress has just informed me that this is my 135th post and I have been blogging for nine years. Although I have been posting fairly regularly this still took me by surprise. What exactly have I chronicled in nine years of blogging and 135 posts? A lot can happen in nine years. A lot of…

Twelfth Night

One year ago this month I embarked on a most arduous journey. At the time, I thought I could handle it because I had been there before, fending off an unwanted intruder in my body and in my life but it was much harder than expected. Healing is not linear. It’s fraught with battles and…

Homecoming

Healing from serious illness is a journey. Actually, healing from the treatment of serious illness is probably more accurate. I wasn’t yet aware of the serious illness until it was detected on a routine test so my healing is more from the havoc the treatment wrought on my body getting rid of it than the…

4 to 12

Last week as we celebrated Father’s Day it struck me that it has been 48 years since we lost our father to cancer when he was just 55. So much of my life was spent without him that I confess many milestones passed when he did not enter my thoughts nor did I have any…

Tattoo

Life experience marks us in many intricate ways. Tattoos are one way to record the journey.

Confessions of a Baby Boomer Mom- Infinite

via Daily Prompt: Infinite One of my new resolutions has been to step out of my comfort zone so this morning I decided to take on a daily prompt challenge from WordPress.  The challenge was to write about the word Infinite. Crazy to say but that word conjures up a lot of things for me….