cancer – Open Diary

Ashes Part III, (Melissa’s Funeral)

Beauty For Ashes

April 15, 2019

This is a repost, in part to introduce myself, in part to also find myself back in a place where i am ready to share with strangers again. This post was originally posted almost 10 years ago, it is all me, I have grown in lots of ways and here like nowhere else have I…

Ashes Part II, (that awful taste in your mouth!)

Beauty For Ashes

April 15, 2019

This post, the previous post and the one following are pulled from met very first posts on this platform. I am posting them here as a reset and also a welcome mat to all who care to read. I don't intend to rehash all these things in detail but at least it is an intro…

Breweries, Funerals and Bands

UniversalSeductress

May 29, 2018

Yesterday my LilSis and I did a Brew Hopping Tour. Not an organized-by-group tour but our own self-organized tour. Now perhaps I should explain, at my age I have gone through the keggar-don't-care-about-taste party beer drinking to no beer thanks just cocktails and perhaps a little wine, t...

My Boobs Hurt

UniversalSeductress

May 28, 2018

I lost another dear friend to cancer. She fought for 8 years. F you cancer! My heart is broken. At moments I feel numb and at other moments I have a survivor's guilt. I hate this world and the way it devalues human hearts all for money. So not only F you cancer but…

Watch it burn…. (catching up)

Evil Queen (formally known as stupid princess)

April 23, 2018

Oh Diary, how I have missed you. Oh, there were attempts to keep in touch, apps, books, notes, blogs.... but no one I loved as much as you. No one who I wanted to talk to as much. Silly, probably, but hey, when you tell someone your secrets, even if you erase some so no…

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alis volat propriis

April 11, 2018

We took a weekend trip to the beach in Puerto Vallarta last week. I’m not a beach person, I guess, but mom is, she loves the beach. She’s supposed to be out of the sun. May 1st of last year, she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctor told us she only had two months to…

Sunscreen, people! SUNSCREEN!

BedlamHillFarm

March 9, 2018

In 2015, during the OD-less Void, a friend of mine who was the leading authority on penguins and other waterfowl asked me to do a Skype call with him on a research vessel in the Weddell Sea. FT was in his early 70's, and in the previous 30+ years had spent 4-5 months out of…

She Get It From Her Mama

Simply Secularly Southern

February 9, 2018

If you're still here, I appreciate it, truly. 😍 If you're new here, hey there. 🤓 I was terrified of making people mad until about 4 months ago...stick with me...or don't, it's your life 💁 "And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket…

Dads, amirite?

Simply Secularly Southern

February 8, 2018

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern." --Anais Nin I was terrified of making people mad until about 4 months ago...stick with me...or don't, it's your life 💁 As a child I was meek but social. My dad left us when I was 4 and my…