It’s my month to host the family bunco night. The theme (Little Rhody) has been announced and evites have been sent. I’ve got dinner planned, dessert picked up, winner and loser prizes purchased, and snacks prepared. My house is clean-ish. The only thing left is to await the arrival of the bunco queens. We’ve been …
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Lena’s Smiling PHACE
You’ve probably never heard of PHACE Syndrome. I hadn’t either until twelve years ago. I’ll never forget the day my sister called to tell me about my infant niece Lena’s PHACE diagnosis. I was standing in the produce section at Stop & Shop, picking up burgers to make for dinner. I remember her telling me …
Happy St Patrick’s Day…
…and Happy Birthday to Uncle Art, another of the voices in my head. He is not as frequent a visitor as some of the others, but I do hear him occasionally. Uncle Art gave me my first typewriter, back in the day when we still used them. I don’t know how he knew that I …
Bears, Bones, Battlestar Galactica? What I’m reading this week…
Just kidding…there’s absolutely no Battlestar Galactica in any of the books I’m reading, at least as far as I know. But here’s what I’m reading at the moment. “Bag of Bones” is a reread – one of my favorite Stephen King’s. I’m a huge King fan, from my very first encounter with him (The Dead …
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The people in my head
I hear voices in my head a lot. Not the Son of Sam kind of voices…no one is telling me to murder my neighbors or anything. Just your normal, every day, voices talking to me on a regular basis. Sometimes it’s song lyrics or a movie quote. Sometimes it’s a family member. I often hear …