Friends

I am so lucky.   I have so many wonderful friends who get me.  Friends who really know me.  And whole-heartedly embrace me.  Life is hard for me right now.  And my friends are stepping up and saying: let me help.   It’s amazing.   I feel so blessed.
Unlikely as it seems, Cher’s take on [...]

Everything can change with a phone call.

  I love my dad.  He’s an amazingly gentle, smart, kind and quiet 87 year old.  He lived through the depression, left Minnesota as a kid and came to Oregon where he picked strawberries with his dad and later worked in the CCC’s fighting fires.  After Pearl Harbor he volunteered for the Army and served under [...]

5 hours of sleep, good coffee and my dog.

Mike is home from the cabin.  Which means Sam is home, too!
I love Sam.  He’s such a big warm happy spot on the earth. And in my bed!  I love waking up and feeling him against my back.   And last night, I slept 5 hours without waking from pain and when I did wake, [...]

The cost of pain.

I’m amazed at the high cost of chronic pain.  For three years I’ve lived with sometimes debilitating pain in my hips and legs.  It affects my ability to walk, to kayak, to golf.  It’s hard to sit.  Hard to stand.  Hard to do anything much, really.  I’ve put on weight because I can’t go for [...]

3:10 to Yuma

What a great movie.  Mike and I just finished watching it and once again, Russell Crowe knocked my socks off.   I don’t know why I underestimate him.   He’s nearly flawless in this performance.  And the screenplay is delicious.  Elmore Leonard knows how to weave the threads of humanity in even the most hardened [...]