.OPTIONS for a Better World

I am surprised but I just about if not actually cry every time I read this. I am pretty proud of...

I am finally back in Provincetown. With JB and Chase. In our new sweet house. I'm walking with canes. But walking better. And the oc...

Some time ago I stopped writing poetry. I am not happy about that so this is about that. love  kj Where is that well of words; gu...

I noticed something a while back. When I talk about my family, I mean JB and Jess and her family. When Jess talks about her fami...

He is the size of a deer. He has a seizure disorder, a broken ankle that was never fixed, he's missing half his teeth. His medic...

This is Reese. She is one month old. I am highlighting her for my friend Deborah, who has a little grand girl of her own and whose fami...

I am not here. Hanging these fab party lights was the last thing JB and I did before we left the new house in Provincetown and bef...

I am on my third week of oxycodone for pain control and I have some observations: 1. It works 2. Best to avoid provocations of all ...

 JB, who is weary enough taking care of me and handling all the chores around her, is standing at the bedroom door at 3 am. She is holding ...

 I am making my surgery sound easier breezier than it actually is. The truth is I have been taking 10 mg of Oxycodone every three hours to ...

What a relief. I woke up in the recovery room dazed and delighted that there I was, all of me, able to nod, smile, feel. I had ...

Not easy to type in a hospital bed Interruptions all night from my feet to my head Running a race ahead of the pain And winning because I...

I'm getting ready for a flight of my own. Tuesday, a surgery that I'm advised will (I prefer the word 'could') restr...

 This is the story of a family of a mother, father, three little boys, and three grandmothers.  Everyone expected the birth of a four...

# 9 is where I live. I'm told the richness of the soil in my yard is second only to a spot in Egypt. I have lived here for 8 years ...