Games Doctors Play
Hello folks, let’s chat…~smile~ I went to see my eye doctor this morning. He’s a good fellow and we always spend a little time swapping stories during my exam. However, just between you and me, he has a strange sense of humor. For instance, he loves to amuse himself at my expense with something I call the dreaded “Better or Worse” game. I get to look
Thoughts from the Backwards Jogger
Yes, literally. In an effort, I suppose, to stay true to my life's overall theme, my knees are weird. FYI, my knees have ALWAYS hurt. When I was a teenager running bleachers during basketball conditioning I thought it was normal-- that everyone's knees were aching. A trip to the ortho in my 30's when I was playing tons of team tennis and my knees were killing me revealed
Serendipity and Unanswered Prayers
Serendipity: a happy accident or pleasant surprise. Our lives are full of accidents and surprises. Being able to see the happy and find the pleasant in them-- that's the hat trick. More than a decade ago, after filling away yet another rejection letter, I squared my shoulders and took another path. I spent the next several years working feverishly to build a platform for my writing. Progress was
