I've been busy all weekend writing up my story because I was invited to speak at my MN Representative Betty McCollum's Health Care Listening Session on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 at 11:00am CST. The listening session will be livestreamed on Representative McCollum's YouTube. Here's more about the session from Representative McCollum: Tune in to my livestreamed… Continue reading Speaking up
Now is not the time to sit back and wait to see what happens – make your voice heard.
A mixed couple of weeks with some disappointment, excitement, and frustration with the unknown.
I am at the beginning of the fourth book in Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time. At the beginning of each book, so far, these have been the first two sentences. And they are my favorite. “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend… Continue reading “Ages come and pass”
It’s finally winter in Minnesota so I’m hibernating this week when temps are going to be below zero Fahrenheit. For my friends in other parts of the world, that would be -18 to -20 Celsius. Even colder with the wind chill! I had fun presenting as part of a panel to 3rd year medical students… Continue reading Hibernating
My cast is off and pins are out just in time for FA Cup and NaNoWriMo. I'm back to wearing a regular shoe and just the typical healing and soreness after getting pins yanked out and having my leg in a cast for 8 weeks. Way to go Wimbledon on 5-1 win today for the… Continue reading Cast Off for FA Cup & NaNo
Made it through surgery and I'm not going to lie, it's been a rough 10 days. The first part was a lot of the post-surgery pain and now I'm in pain from the cast. It's hitting the tendon on the back of my knee and causing some issues. I'm going to go get it checked… Continue reading Recovering
i have been reading The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and am on Book 2 of fourteen. this is a time of pain in my life. i don’t have energy to write the things that I want to write and love. my foot surgery is this Thursday, 9/7/23 – "the wheel weaves what… Continue reading The wheel
Seven weeks ago, I started to feel pain in my right little toe. I have athetoid cerebral palsy and that does mean I bump toes into equipment and stuff so thought I maybe just wacked it on something. But, it’s only gotten worse and is now at a constant six out of ten pain scale.… Continue reading Toe-mageddon 2: The sequel
Awesome week. Truly awesome week.
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