Where Am I and Why Am I in This Handbasket?
I blame the Oat Squares. If it wasn’t for them, the Cosmic Cat wouldn’t have noticed me. My life is been puttering along fairly quietly for a while, with only the standard irritants and minor catastrophes that happens in lives, but July didn’t feel that was good enough. July decided to set off enough calamities…
Drugs and Bitterness
It’s been a bit of a summer. Not weatherwise – it was gorgeous – but in terms of my pain and injury levels. The right shoulder has been bitchy for months and when it finally started simmering down just a little bit after the steroid shot about a month ago, the left one took up…
Everything’s Blog Fodder
I’ve had a spectacular weekend. That was sarcasm. The unvarnished truth – and this is where the title of this post begins to make sense – is that I picked up a stomach bug. Ordinarily, one of the benefits of having limited shoulder, elbow and wrist movement is that you’d can’t touch things like door…
5 Year Plan
I was watching the Barbara Walters special before the Oscars – and can I just say how very awful the Academy Awards were this year? I’d rather have watched Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White for a couple of hours than watch that impersonal, rushed, yet dragging-into-eternity evening and where was I again? Oh yes,…
A Request of the Universe
You know how when you stub your toe, somehow it becomes a magnet for impact? You haven’t stubbed it for a couple years, but the moment you do, furniture starts leaping out at you and despite not having dropped anything in weeks, now you drop an apple and it lands on your toe and when…
In Which I am the Cat Toy of the Universe: A Story of Calamity
Updated December 18, 2022 I once developed a theory of how life works. In this theory, the universe is a cat and we are its toy. It makes perfect sense. You know how there are times where it feels that every time you try to get up, you get knocked down again? Am I the…