I Go Dark Sometimes

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't written in a year. You can call it writer's block and that wouldn't be wrong, but I also tend to hunker in and withdraw when I need to recharge my battery. Those who know me well understand this and somehow (because they are AWESOME), they don't hold it …

Hidden Track

Do you remember the first time you ever heard the hidden track on the Nirvana Nevermind album? It was a super cool discovery. Maybe it was cool because it made me feel like I had to be patient enough to discover it. It was like a REWARD for being zoney, for enjoying ten straight minutes of …

Chemo Toe Joe Can’t Do A Lot of Things

One day I was in the shower and I noticed that the skin around my toe was puffy. It wasn't an ingrown toenail, but it was similar, near the cuticle at the bottom of my nail. It didn't look right. It was red and inflamed and had some discoloration. Later that morning it began to ooze. …

A Badass Sword – It’s What Every Breast Cancer Patient Needs

Thank gawd for capitalism and early Halloween catalogs in September. They came just in time for my low white blood cell count. Low white blood cell numbers mean that I've become the girl in a bubble. I haven’t gone out in public because I can’t fight infections, so I’ve accepted the fact that I have …