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Cub Lioness
If I could be an African Cat, I would be a lioness. We recently re-watched African Cats, the Disney Nature movie. So I have big cats on the brain today. I don’t remember feeling so nostalgic watching that movie the first time, I think because it was pre-Lyme. I have […]

Ode to a Lioness

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Oh,yes, in the old days, I epotimized “living life on the edge”. I tested the limits of my physical body, emotional self and the limits of the law. I drank too much, smoked too much, worked too much, didn’t eat right and slept little. It was a ripe combination for […]

On the Edge with a Rail

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“Don’t the waves ever stop coming?” Was the question out of my 7 year old at our recent trip to the beach. She thought in her mind she could “swim” in the ocean like the pool and was very frustrated at the onslaught of waves that were relentless despite her […]

The Waves Keep Coming…..

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When I was in grade school, the kids couldn’t find anything to rhyme with my name to taunt me and properly make fun of me, until one day, Thomas Clark came up with Praying Mantis Janice. Prophetic? Hmmmm…… While riding in the car last week, my son was reading from […]

Off With Their Heads!

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A Tribute to all the Warrior Mom’s I know and love that have special needs kids, chronically ill kids, have lost a child or are currently trying to parent while battling illness themselves. Do you know that moment, that moment before a “diagnosis” is handed out? That moment when you […]

Happy Warrior Mother’s Day

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I drove myself for a haircut today. Really, it’s the little things that I still celebrate and pray that I never lose the objectivity, clarity and gratefulness to take these things for granted again. It was a mere 2 years ago deep into my illness that a friend had to […]

The new haircut

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