Category Archives: cancer blows

Up in Smoke

It's day 8 now with Mom in the hospital and me making it a second home. A week ago yesterday that we almost lost her. Hoping this is her week to go home, but that depends on her white blood cell count coming down. They say nurses are the worst patients and I understand why. ...

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It Is What It Is

One year today. A year. How the hell did that happen? A little over a year ago, I went up to Pennsylvania to see Lisa for the last time. We spent three days together. We both knew what ...

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2000 Zero Zero, Party Over, Oops, Out of Time

I had a great freaking holiday weekend. I really needed it. So much stress, so much bad juju floating around my neck of the blogosphere. Many loved ones in pain right now, myself included. So I really needed the laughs, and I got them. ...

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Loud as a Golden Gun

I was writing a post about what a marvelous group of days I just finished having, and what an amazingly surreal thing that is for me. Then I heard a song on my iPhone and thought immediately of Kim, whose reality is a hell of a lot different than mine at the moment. Love ...

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She’s Still The Bitch

Odd, just a day after Christmas, I was sitting at the computer, wanting to listen to music. I love Pandora, have it on my iPhone, too. Personalized radio is the future, people, believe it. And even more than Pandora, I love Slacker (also on the iPhone). I think Slacker has a ...

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