Miscellaneous
"Sometimes, during grief, we need someone to take our hand, lead us back onto the dance floor, remind us what it is to be alive."
2023 Addendum
I survived, have been cancer-free for more than six years, and am living life to the fullest.
2023 Addendum
It’s been six years since I wrote this, and I am officially a cancer survivor.
2023 Addendum
Officially, I am now a “cancer survivor.”
If you’re facing something like this, take heart. It is hard, but the doctors are great, the nurses wonderful, and the technology is fabulous.
WordPress tallies a lot of information about this website including how many times pages are viewed, where those viewers are, and so forth.
It’s fall in Phoenix.
Just a week ago it was 107. In that intense heat, drivers are impatient … no, intolerant of tiny mistakes. Someone not watching the light turn green will get a honk. And then another. And then a long one that elicits a one-finger salute in return. Road rage, however, is usually played out inside each air conditioned cocoon with windows tightly shut against the heat. Getting out of the car means getting into that heat, something that is just not done if there’s any choice.
For the past two weeks, he (or she) has eluded four traditional mouse traps while continuing the near-nightly harassment. We can hear it up in the attic gnawing away at something hard like a 2-4 or insulation or some of the house and telephone wiring.
