

If patience be a virtue .. I'm sooooo not virtuous!!
I meet with the surgeon at the end of this week .. one month from the surgery. Things seem to be healing although I'm rubbing enough Helychrissum and Frankincense on the "scar" to float a boat. Guess I'm going to have to start looking for scores of beautiful, wispy scarfs to wrap around my neck ala Isadora Duncan because ain't nuthin' gonna get git rid of that thing! However, the most important appointment is next week when I see the ENT and we evaluate the voice. Right now


La Brea Dinosaur Dena or How I Fell Into the Tar Pit!!!
Well, I sure didn't see THIS coming!! Depression!! HOLY CRAP .. really? Right now? Apparently so!! And at the worst possible time, of course .. Like so many people .. I live with depression! And, like so many people, I try to hide it – disguise it – ignore it – blow it off – scare it away with anger .. so many ways to try and live with it or, at least, distract myself from it. And always trying to protect myself from the judgment many people are so quick to exercise and shar


Oh .. THAT was fun .. NOT!!!
A neighbor generously gave me a ride to the hospital. I’d never met either he or his wife but I posted a request for some help on a neighborhood group. He offered and I gratefully accepted. It was nice to have someone to talk to and to distract me .. we talked about – what else? Music!! So I’m there the requisite 2 hours early and sat in the waiting room alone and nervously tapping my foot and watching the clock. It kept ticking and I kept waiting. How is it that when you’re