A few more thoughts on truth and illusion
I dreamed the other night that I was telling Mom about this blog. She said she hadn’t read it, but wasn’t worried about it. I think I felt a little […]
Tag Archives: mother-daughter issues
Chronic illness: acceptance, denial and the reality we make
Mama was diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) in the late 1990s, right around her fiftieth birthday. She had a big birthday bash planned at The Palm. She had bought […]
Finding your own inner barking dog
A lot of these stories are really about me figuring out they are stories–narratives, if not wholly fictions—that I have used to make sense of my life. And a lot […]
Benny loves Enrique
Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]
