Thank you, followers and friends, for patience. If you’re chronically ill, interruptions can derail your routine, even your life. Or the interruption itself becomes a change, much to your surprise. I tried to achieve a new “normal” after the mothball episode and anniversary “processing.” With Lyme disease, Epstein Barr, and…

Viral Voyage: The Anniversary Awakens Here’s my pre 9/11 post. It’s about anniversaries that need a different name. Has one of these anniversaries happened to you? What do you call an anniversary you don’t want to celebrate? Memo-versary? Recall-athon? Most definitions in American English refer to an anniversary as a…

First, thank you to my new followers! I’m recording my viral voyage because I believe there needs to be one entire record somewhere that anyone can read at any time. It will be a river that carries things along with it. …

My surgery was scheduled for 2 p.m. the day after I was brought out of the coma. A nurse explained I would be given propofol, fentanyl and a paralytic drug prior to the tracheotomy. Just before “going under,” I glimpsed the surgeon. I’d been his patient before. He is one…

I was raised by parents with graduate degrees in theology, whose understanding of Christianity embraced intellect, heart, and soul. Their Christian practice also embraced the world and other religions, not as substitute faiths, but as worthy of study, with acceptance toward others of different faiths. The bookshelves in our home…

The woman looked to be 5 feet 3 inches tall. Olive skin covered her bones. There was scant flesh on her frame. Her short, wiry grey hair might have been a cheap wig. Her bangs hid her eyebrows. Her blue eyes were dull, set close together and far back in…