After Emilee’s Passing
Magic Lives On, Cancer Does Not
The Magic, is Love So, here is the thing about cancer. You know that question on the profile, the one that asks what do you most dislike about cancer? Here is my thought for the day. It came to me while watching the movie Pete’s Dragon. I am a sucker for those kind of movies.…
Read MoreFrightly Nightly News SNL Style
Frightly Nightly News Rumor has it that someone was tap…tap….tap… tap… dancing….. at the trump tower and reliable sources who were not authorized to speak with the media, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that surveillance tapes captured a clip of ex-president Obama tap dancing in the lobby of Trump Towers. However, un…
Read MoreHumor Helps, No I am Not Crazy, A Drop of Levity by Roseanne Rosannadana
I Needed Humor to Help with the Grief, to Help Heal, Also, Emilee despised Trump Written in the voice of Roseanne Rosannadana (Gilda Radner, part of the original Saturday Night Live cast) “Yes…I think we need bigger cars….and we need to lower emissions on cars…because ….there is NO global swarming….. and we can trust the…
Read MoreAnother Party In Heaven
Talking About Aunt Belle My Aunt….my mom’s sister (mom passed in Jan 2001…she was 78….uterine cancer…died about a year and a half after diagnosis)….passed yesterday, on my mom’s birthday, Mar 15. My aunt was 87, my mom would have been 94. My aunt was in a nursing home until a week ago when she was…
Read MoreJust A Sad Day, Sometimes Just Need To Rest
I knew I should have gotten out today, but I just couldn’t get out of my own way. All I really wanted to do today was go back to sleep. I was up early, around 6. I did some stretches, I had my cereal and looked at email, deleting junk mail, reading some news. I…
Read MoreCome Join Me As I Shop and Cook For The First Time Since Emilee Is Gone
Come Join Me For A Bit Today, I passed a couple of thresholds, hurdled a few hurdles, and crashed through some force fields, some invisible barriers. You know I have not really cooked a home cooked meal since Emilee has died. Oh, I made franks, but that does not count for anything. I have been…
Read MoreEmilee’s Caregiver, Constant Flux, from Discomfort to Pride
Note to a friend on a blog site whose spouse was getting chemotherapy: Hi…it (from diagnosis to the end) is like a marathon…where the course of the race keeps changing, so where you thought you had a feel for the race track all of a sudden the layout of the race changes, and sometimes or…
Read MoreSharing My Thoughts on Lonely
Sharin’ My Thoughts on Lonely Ok..I still spelled melancholia wrong…..ha…. there is no melon in melancholy….lol….who says….if I want to put a melon in there, so be it!!! So there. Have to make some of your own rules as you go along, and if the doctors can’t have some sense of humor then they shouldn’t…
Read MoreA Grieving Stuffed Toy Rabbit and Me, Talk and Cry after Emilee is gone
Melon Callin’ Ya, AKA, Melancholia Sometimes it is just …I don’t know…easier? to talk to a toy stuffed animal than it is to a person? I don’t know…sometimes it is easier to tell (shhhhh, I don’t want to offend any of them) a stuffed animal, what you are feeling, or what you need, or what…
Read MoreThank You to Facebook Friends after Emilee’s Funeral
February 5, 2017 This is a post I wrote on facebook: Thank you. Your posts are beautiful. Some of you are making it extremely difficult for me to eat and read these at the same time. I am trying to watch the salt in my diet, and tears in my food…well, you get the picture.…
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