Resilience

Resilience

The word “resilience,” a notable word, has a bit of sparkle to it. It’s a soft word, at odds in a sense with what it means: to be tough, to bounce back from challenging circumstances, to forge a new life path after a perilous and fraught period. To...
Life as a Miracle: EMG Test

Life as a Miracle: EMG Test

Last Monday, December 16, I received a Christmas miracle. The date was the fourth anniversary of my ill-fated visit to the local hospital’s ER. While I’d been experiencing involuntary muscle twitches during massages in the previous month, on that day, my...
Middle Girth

Middle Girth

I was never a fan of The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins was never my friend or role model. Too many pages of tiny typeface read in a paperback rather than a college textbook… back in the day, I wanted to earn an A. At present, I’m especially not a fan of...
The Boost of a Booster

The Boost of a Booster

YES! I received my second vaccine shot on March, feeling that I was free from fear of Covid-19 because I was double-vaxxed. Safe and able to move about my community. BUT my condition was only semi-freedom because not every California inhabitant had been vaccinated....