Offbeat Follies

I will explain my prolonged absence from this blog as best to my abilities permit me to do so. So, after this post I had my surgery and it surprisingly went very well and I recovered fully within 4 weeks. No complications, and best of all, with a new...

I have no real excuse for the lack of updates over the last two years. During my bilateral hernia surgery recovery, the pain was so intense that I could not find the spirit to rally my thoughts beyond "I am in pain and I am depressed."
I have a few half-written posts that never got published simply because I find it too difficult to show that level of vulnerability. So I kept away instead....

So this week I received a letter from Medicare stating I owe them $14.4k because they forked over the money to pay for my hospitalization after my partial hysterectomy surgery. Oh, they paid for the surgery - but the fact that I didn't just get up and...

Believe it or not, I've had a lot to talk about these last 6 or 7 months but just chose not to.
Something happened tonight, however, that is preventing me from a decent night's sleep and where two hours ago I was excited for what is one of the best events I'm fortunate enough to get invited to, I am now dreading the morning....