by Mir | Jul 12, 2012 | Health is overrated, My name is Grumplestiltskin
If Chickadee had cancer—if she had a tumor in her brain or rogue cells infiltrating her marrow—everything would be different. Well, almost everything. The thing that wouldn’t be different would be the fear and the worry and the what-if-ing I try to...
by Mir | Jul 10, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
So my new (awesome) therapist commented to me this morning that in her experience, people fall into one of two categories: Either they are worriers—chronically agonizing over absolutely everything—or they tend not to worry at all, even in situations where...
by Mir | Jul 9, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I bought myself a fancy new dehydrator. Wait; that’s not entirely true. I did ORDER myself that fancy new dehydrator, but I didn’t pay for it. I had some credit laying around over at Fab.com and one day instead of boutiques comprised solely of upcycled...
by Mir | Jul 5, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
A little while back I suspected that Monkey might be having some trouble seeing. (I think this was because he’d developed the habit of reading with the book resting within an inch of the tip of his nose.) I took him to the optometrist for an exam and they said...
by Mir | Jul 3, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
My dear friend Ruth—a survivor in her own right—sent me a lovely necklace with a charm that says “Just keep swimming.” I laughed out loud when I opened it, and then I cried a little, because that’s sort of what I do, these days. But yes,...
