A Request from a Resident of Wasilla, Alaska
posted about 1 month ago, updated about 19 hours later | 4 comments
Hi everyone,
I have a request regarding the upcoming election and the interest my governor's nomination as a VP candidate has turned towards me, personally.
I am usually apolitical. I don't get all excited about politics. I do vote, but I quiet...
I have a request regarding the upcoming election and the interest my governor's nomination as a VP candidate has turned towards me, personally.
I am usually apolitical. I don't get all excited about politics. I do vote, but I quiet...
Fragile Hopes
posted 2 months ago | 3 comments
Some of the most dearest of our hopes are so fragile. It takes just a few words to make them shrink back deep inside, for the heart to ache, for tears to threaten.
This is, of course, about a romantic hope. He's not an eonite, so it's safe to sha...
This is, of course, about a romantic hope. He's not an eonite, so it's safe to sha...
Alaska Cruise Ship Rendezvous Journal
posted 2 months ago, updated 25 minutes later | 1 comment
One Tank of Gas From Home (Day 1) Wasilla, AK to Tok, AK
Hi everyone! July 11, 2008. I'm 298 miles from home (less than a tank of gas, for Easylikesundaymorn's reference) and spending the night in room 28 of Young's Motel. In a minute I'll go gra...
Hi everyone! July 11, 2008. I'm 298 miles from home (less than a tank of gas, for Easylikesundaymorn's reference) and spending the night in room 28 of Young's Motel. In a minute I'll go gra...
Allowing Ourselves to be Loved
posted 3 months ago | 0 comments
Many of us freely admit that we're afraid of getting hurt. Yet a love story only has two endings: boy loses girl or girl loses boy. By death or the death of feelings for one another, hurt and loss is inevitable. It's what's in between that counts...
MyFullestLife Submission
posted 7 months ago | 4 comments
I've done a lot of unconventional things in my life. Getting cancer wasn't one of them. One in three women alive today will have some type of cancer.
I was told by another cancer survivor that when you get the diagnosis "you join a club you didn'...
I was told by another cancer survivor that when you get the diagnosis "you join a club you didn'...
Outside
posted 9 months ago | 0 comments
If you spend any amount of time in Alaska as a resident, someone is going to ask you "Plan to get Outside much this year?" It's a conversational gambit unique to Alaska.
New residents (less than one winter here you're a Cheechako...not sure of sp...
New residents (less than one winter here you're a Cheechako...not sure of sp...
Down Memory Lane
posted 9 months ago, updated 4 days later | 2 comments
I have a friend who is a former lover, but will forever be my friend. That is a convoluted sentence that many of you can identify with, I am sure.
One memory in particular keeps running through my thoughts tonight. It involves our first days toge...
One memory in particular keeps running through my thoughts tonight. It involves our first days toge...
Cancer Chronology #3 - Encouraging News
posted 9 months ago, updated 6 months later | 3 comments
January 4, 2008. It is one week since my second operation, where my lymph glands on the right side of my neck, and the right (last) side of my thyroid was removed. I have a meeting with the surgeon.
To my surprise, he has the pathology results of...
To my surprise, he has the pathology results of...
Long Night
posted 9 months ago | 1 comment
4.5 days after surgery, and there's no other words for it....this is a long night.
I have to deal with hypothyroidism unabated for about one month before I can do the radiation. It's going to be a long month.
I lay in bed listening to my heart r...
I have to deal with hypothyroidism unabated for about one month before I can do the radiation. It's going to be a long month.
I lay in bed listening to my heart r...
Cancer Chronology #2
posted 9 months ago | 6 comments
December 28, 2007. It's two weeks since my first surgery when the thyroid cancer was found. I've been told to report to the hospital at 8:15 and surgery is scheduled to start at 9:45..
Things go as planned. I wake up in the early afternoon. I can...
Things go as planned. I wake up in the early afternoon. I can...
