One of my favorite stores has given me a chance to post my opinion on their new blog, The Right Start blog. Being that I am a newly single mother, I’ve spent most of the past year trying to help my little one settle into a comfortable way of living in…
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End Of A Diseased Era
It’s interesting looking back on my life with Colitis. For the past few months I’ve been obsessed with remembering moments and symptoms and comparing notes. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to get a handle on a why and how. Why it happened? And how did it get…
World Ostomy Day! ~Get Educated & Celebrate Life!
Saturday October 6th is World Ostomy Day and because of my reversal surgery last Saturday, it looks like I will be celebrating it without an Ostomy! Yes y’all it would seem that the Colitis/Ostomy chapter of my life has closed with the taking down of my Ileostomy. But that doesn’t…
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries…
…Something I learned at 16 through the amazing voice of Valarie Pettiford. I didn’t know her then. But I had seen her and listened to her and knew her through the revival of Bob Fosse through the show, Fosse. What I didn’t know was that I was about 2 degrees…
Amazing Music Comes To Los Angeles
This weekend is turning out to be a wildly musical great time for us Los Angeles local Angels. Saturday it will go down in the west-central valley at one of my favorite parks, Lake Balboa. The 1st Annual Balboa Music Festival with such stars as New Edition, Robin Thicke &…
Someone Told Me NOT To Write About This…
…So I will! Right now there is someone sitting on their couch, not bathed, surrounded by baby items with dried spit up on their neck and wrists, hair hasn’t been conditioned in weeks and they haven’t slept in what feels like years. She’s sitting there trying to make sense of…