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This is what our grape leaves are currently doing. We didn’t get any viable fruit from these this year, but we learned a great deal about how to tend to fruit trees and plants. Next year we’re going to have so much damn delicious fruit, including grapes. P.S. We think these are grape plants, but …
When The Testaments came out in September, I ordered it immediately because I could not wait to find out how A Handmaid's Tale saga concludes. I assumed I would tear through the novel as I do with most riveting literature; however, that wasn't the case. I finally finished reading it this week, and I must …
By some miracle, we have reached $10,000 on my GoFundMe campaign. I cannot even believe it. People I haven't seen in person for maybe a decade are donating. People who changed my diapers are donating. I have the deepest gratitude for each donor and for each well wish and prayer. It's a little over a …
Rosie makes everything better. Happy Friday! Maegan
I often find myself getting caught up in the minutiae of daily life. The wake up, start the coffee pot, brush teeth, put on clothes, pack lunch, get in the car, get to my desk hum drum becomes my focus. When this happens, relatively insignificant happenings like someone cutting me off on the highway or …
Friends! Have you seen? My GoFundMe has raised $7,730 since I created it yesterday (if you haven't seen my GoFundMe page lately, click here). I cannot even believe it. I keep saying that. And crying. All the crying. I had no idea such a venerable, altruistic community and extended community existed around me. Some people …
Over the past several months, I have written a lot about my very personal experience with cancer hoping in part to help bring awareness and hoping on a personal level to distract me. One thing that I have not shared a lot about is my work situation, FMLA, short term disability, etc. This one is …
Continue reading A Humble Open Letter to My Community and My GoFundMe Campaign
We’ve heard for years, or at least I have, that we should be reaching for more substantive compliments that do not include how someone looks. Why? People are so much more than that. And the compliments tend to box people in to what the complimentor values such as thinness or “classic beauty”. Okay, so what …
With my first surgery in 2015, I invited anyone and everyone to visit me the day of my surgery to the day I was discharged. They could come by any time. And it wore me out so hard. I didn’t realize I could set these kinds of boundaries with well wishes with presents in tow. …
Continue reading My New Found Boundary Around Hospital Visits
Photo by pugsbigfan I don’t know about you, but I needed this today. Happy Photo Friday! Mae
