Leif Erikson at Hallgrímskirkja - Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept 2017 One foot in the boat and one on the shoreOne moving, unanchored – the other still mooredThe gulf ‘twixt the two creeping wider and wetterTime now to choose quickly; which foot is the better? I know well those things gathered neatly on land They're ducks in…
Cooped Up.
From the drafts folder: February 28, 2024 One year ago, I drove my trusty Subaru down a single-track drive hedged by waist-deep snow banks, hoping I'd turned in to the right chicken farm. I was exhausted. Frazzled. Burned out. I'd booked a glorified chicken coop on a whim a few days prior, looking for an…
I Have Two Kidneys, and You Have None: Bye bye, Baxter
We celebrated three months post-transplant by a ceremonial send-off to dialysis supplies from Baxter, Inc. It was a grand farewell to the chapter of peritoneal dialysis! Bye-bye Baxter Family and friends-like-family helped us blast Baxter to the past Jess is back to work, and Mom is adding to her list of "now I can...". The…
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