The Butterfly Emerges

Goodbye everyone. Thank you so much for reading and writing with me for these 16+ years.I am a kinder and more loving person because of you. I am a better human.I will miss you and wonder about you. If you wonder about me - I'll be just fine.:) I love you. Thanks for caring. Don't…

I got all gussied up and attended a wonderful Opera, Rigoletto, Wednesday night in Seattle. The sets were just fantastic and the orchestra and singers were very good.I have another idea for a business that has been keeping me up at night. It's huge.I got a strange call from the Professor this wee...

I never enjoyed New Years Eve. Such an anticlimactic thing - the build-up and then hurrah! and then what? Drunks crying, bad weather, headaches...arguments, dangerous car rides... no thanks. When I was married to the kids' father, he often decided to unburden himself on New Years Eve to me, then ...

2013 winds to a close and I feel detached from it. My sister and son are safely back in the Midwest and I begin the work of bringing the house back to order. We had a nice visit and it was lovely to hear laughter in these rooms. I hadn’t realized it was the first…

Saturday morning in Seattle and I concentrate on building a fire. Yesterday we had a nice blanket of snow and it was so very beautiful. Matt has been here since Tuesday and asleep most of that time. Little by little I can see him relaxing and realizing that school is over - he has accomplished&he...

A week on the medicated shakes and I notice a boost in my energy level, improvement in the quality of my sleep, and a smoothing in the texture of my skin. I am not hungry like I feared I might be, so I am happy about that. Thanksgiving with my family was nice, slow and pleasant.&nb...

I wrote my first entry here Thursday, October 22, 1998. In the old numbering system I was Diary #5. The DM was 1. When I came over to the pay site I converted to #314. I cannot believe it's gone by so quickly. 15 years. I have learned so much here...about myself - about others…

My Aunt Sally died a little over a month ago leaving her 4 daughters fighting over the estate.  One wants everything sold for the cash and the others can't buy their sister out - so the lawyer is taking steps to sell it all, including my family's original homestead farm.  Sally&nbs...

Fever free now for 2 weeks so I am well enough for the first round of immunizations.  The doctor is concerned that I might get pneumonia while my immune system is so low and like Jim Henson, it might just kill me before I realize how sick I am. I have 3 more medical tests to…

SQL errors on the server here and I wish I could help them keep up.  My fever is returning at sundown but the days are manageable so I am going in to the office.  I needed to be able to look well and be seen looking capable.  People so quickly forget all you hav...