Opac and Veruca were getting ready for school this morning and Todd was cooking bacon and sausage for a breakfast meeting. I’m still trying to ward off the alien invader who made my lip swell up. V has a presentation in Chinese today, so she wanted to practice with us. It sounded great to me … Continue reading Just Another Thursday Morning
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Nobody Cares
I stumbled upon an article several months ago, Things About You That No One Actually Gives a Shit About, Ranked. For fun, I spent 45 minutes that I can never get back on this... Here are my 15 things that no one on social media cares about: My dream about Veruca face-planting off a third-story … Continue reading Nobody Cares
That Stench Is My Foul Mood
Of Bullies
Warning: Far-stretching, rambling rant ahead, and real life bullies exposed. Veruca got a cell phone in 5th grade, in order to attend a birthday party. If it weren’t for diabetes, she still wouldn’t have one. It was an enormous leap of faith and I made sure she knew it. Two years later she still doesn’t … Continue reading Of Bullies
The Island of F*cked Up Dreams
I'd rather be here. Copyright by proxy, The Tara Chronicles, 2018 Now that Todd is home from an enviable 4-day business trip to Nashville in an amazing hotel, I am sleeping like a log again. It was the longest we’ve been apart in over seven years. Technically we didn’t lay eyes on each other for … Continue reading The Island of F*cked Up Dreams
The First Days of 2018
As another year turns the corner, I cleanse my inbox of useless emails and spam, browse the pages of social media for inspiration. I get emails from a website that offers design inspiration for your home and garden and life. One included a reminder about, and how and where, to start decluttering your space. Purging … Continue reading The First Days of 2018
There Was This Boy
So there was this boy, I saw him walk by me once and he took my breath away. I couldn't avoid his eyes or the chemistry between us. He asked me out once and I said yes, and we went out again, and again, until he owned me. I never knew love like that, and … Continue reading There Was This Boy
Type 1: Know the Signs!!
It’s National Diabetes Awareness Month…
Lately it seems Type 1 diabetes has been in the news, the worst kind of news: the reports are of new cases only diagnosed after a child has died. It seems implausible to me that this could happen, and I really don’t like to focus on the negative of anything, but the fact is… it has happened. How could it get that far? And more frightening of all… how could a physician, any physician, miss the signs? Or, at the very least, consider all of the possibilities? That just one finger stick and a tiny spot of blood could rule out this chronic and debilitating disease?
And this is why we “D-parents,” as we often call ourselves, are so eager to educate and get the word out. We don’t want to hear any more tragic stories of diagnoses that, had they come soon enough, would not have ended this way. …
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Personal Space
Two posts ago I mentioned that minor thing called Personal Space. We all need it. We are occasionally violated. We sometimes never get it. Sometimes we get too much. In college this weird thing happened where people started hugging each other. Not that we didn’t do that before, but it seemed like a matter of … Continue reading Personal Space
Todd and I Do It Again
The truth is, we do it every year. Sometimes several times a year. We went on vacation, and returned to Ocean City, Maryland a couple of weeks ago. We rolled in late afternoon on a Monday, checked into our 7th floor room (remember this detail – it figures in later) at last year’s hotel … Continue reading Todd and I Do It Again
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