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Category: New Life
#8 of 92: Yesterday’s Stop on the Grief Train
In Death & Dying yesterday, the professor had us draw an outline of our hand and then label each finger with something we love to touch. On my little finger, I wrote ‘hard-boiled egg.’ It was the last thing I thought of but the… Continue Reading “#8 of 92: Yesterday’s Stop on the Grief Train”
#7 of 92: Put the Poison Down! Let’s be Friends
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them? View all responses If they’d like a cup of coffee. This presupposes they’re not aiming some kind of weapon at me and that they have the means to actually drink coffee. I once… Continue Reading “#7 of 92: Put the Poison Down! Let’s be Friends”
#6 of 92: How Hot Was It? Really Hot!
Yesterday, I had my face fried. Well, not fried. Baked would be more accurate. Here is a picture I drew of this event. This is how it worked. I took off my cochlear implant receivers (meaning I was then deaf) and then the medical… Continue Reading “#6 of 92: How Hot Was It? Really Hot!”
#5 of 92: Always Good to Have a Back-up Mantra
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by? View all responses A few years ago, I was preparing a speech or a toast (maybe that’s a better word) for my older daughter’s fiftieth birthday party. I searched the internet for poems that talked… Continue Reading “#5 of 92: Always Good to Have a Back-up Mantra”
#3 of 92: Goodbye Old Threads
Goodbye dress that looks like a bathrobe Goodbye blue striped jacket with the three-quarter sleeves and the popsicle vibe Goodbye plaid shirt and farmer dreams Goodbye white button-down shirt, the office is closed Goodbye crazy-making itchy scratchy red sweater Come here for a hug… Continue Reading “#3 of 92: Goodbye Old Threads”
#2 of 92: My Closet as a Life Puzzle
The genie grants you a wish. What is it? View all responses Oh, I know what you’re thinking. Nope. I’m not fool enough to wish for that. If a genie appeared right here, danced with its velvet slippers across my keyboard – K –… Continue Reading “#2 of 92: My Closet as a Life Puzzle”
#1 of 92: Trying Out a Wet Suit as a Metaphor
You know when you get out of the pool and go in the locker room and start peeling off your bathing suit and it sticks like heck until it winds up, rolled up at your feet? That’s me. I’ve been peeling my sad suit… Continue Reading “#1 of 92: Trying Out a Wet Suit as a Metaphor”
The First Beef Stew of the Season
I made the first beef stew of the season. It was lovely except there were no peas. There ought to have been peas though they weren’t missed amongst the carrots, potatoes, and green beans, all carrying the dirt of the farm from whence they… Continue Reading “The First Beef Stew of the Season”
Go Where It’s Dark and You’ll Need to Start a Fire
What are some life hacks that you practice? View all responses My biggest life hack at the moment is leaving my comfortable and cozy home to go camping where I spend an hour trying to get a good campfire going, drink wine out of… Continue Reading “Go Where It’s Dark and You’ll Need to Start a Fire”
Piercing in a Couple of Ways
I waited an hour at a chain clinic to get a blood test for TB so I can do ‘service learning’ at a hospice for my Death & Dying class and I think my son might have been right when he said that I… Continue Reading “Piercing in a Couple of Ways”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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