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Cake
Just when things seem like they couldn’t get worse, the world has a funny way of showing that they can. I dread turning on the radio, constantly bracing for reports of nuclear war. So, in the long and proud human tradition of denying everything that’s horrible, I present to you…. Cake. Every year, our local […]
Tell the Children that We Tried
The Muse isn’t descending upon me tonight, but I DO have a letter to the editor regarding PFAS, chemicals that have been linked to numerous health problems and that have been turning up in drinking water all over Wisconsin. I wrote it as part of a Sierra Club Volunteer Night, and I’m glad I did; […]
Equine Tranquility
It’s been a rough week, both physically and emotionally, and I REALLY don’t want to write about it. But I was at a loss for what I COULD write about; my days felt as bleak as the frigid winter landscape around me. Dorothy the pony rescued me from a similar darkness last week, but this […]
Dream Pony, Real Pony
Getting diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease is terrifying. Especially during a pandemic. Especially when your best hope of slowing the disease progression is to take a drug that will suppress your immune system. Especially when so many of your fellow Americans are making it clear that it’s better for people like you to die […]
Unafraid
Like many (probably most) of you, I’m usually afraid: Scared of what’s happening to the planet. To my country. To my multiple sclerosis-afflicted body. Like many (probably most) of you, I’m tired of being scared. I need a break. Therefore, I present a peek into the lives of the most unafraid creatures I know: My […]
December Tornadoes
January is only a couple weeks old, and although my resolution to write lots of letters to the editor, politicians, etc. hasn’t QUITE materialized, I did write ONE. This was inspired by the spate of tornadoes that hit Wisconsin in mid-December. My family was fortunate that we didn’t suffer the devastation that unseasonable storms inflicted […]
A Tale of Two Senators
One of my resolutions this year is to become more politically active, at least in the sense of taking more time to write to my representatives and express my views on issues that concern me. I’ve done some sporadic email writing over the past year, but I really need to take more time to share […]
New Year, New Blog Entries
When I started this blog, I imagined it as a cozy nest that I could line with little scraps of loveliness. Hence my silence for the last several months: Any moments of beauty have been overshadowed by my recent multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and I didn’t know what to write. Do I talk about this chronic […]
Garbage Gardening
I admit it: I save stuff that would normally be thrown away. A LOT of stuff. The word “hoarding” may have been applied to my habits by certain other parties who are married to me, but in my defense, my “hoarding” pays off at this time of year, when it’s time to start garden seeds. […]
The Skateboard Cake
Sage has now been in this world for thirteen years, and for almost all of those years, Bob the Baker has made an edible masterpiece to commemorate the occasion. Each year, Sage picks his current interest, and Bob delivers a monument in carbs to that theme. The cakes have depicted everything from water parks to […]
Moments of Unexpected Beauty 