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Journaling since 1974. I'm an artist, book lady, and quilter living at the beach with a car guy. We wait out the pandemic in our little condo above the beach. Having been homeless in the 70's, the car guy and I truly appreciate where we are today. All entries are copyrighted under the author's legal name under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. © Copyright 1974-2021.
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A WAR ZONE in Postcards 4
It was quiet until a minute ago. Now there is a heavy duty cop-chopper circling, and sirens ring from every side. G says he’s not at all curious what’s happening one block down the street. ...
MY FRIEND in Postcards 4
<center></center> My friend Dixie Anna. There are those unexpected calls so rational sounding, such a nice voice in my ear, jolting me upright. She fell, moving pictures around. Who a...
LAUGHTER in Postcards 4
2013 Sometimes I whine, but usually I laugh at myself. Laughter keeps those around me going too. The Lasix leads me to run for the bathroom but often I find myself leaking in the most ino...
TICKET SALES PLUS in Postcards 4
• George is over there with three separate browsers open. It’s the first ticket sales day for Comic Con 2020. He has hopes of getting one day tickets for two of us, and four days ticket...
A GOOD DAY in Postcards 4
• My blood pressure is back to normal. The 02 in my blood is much improved. • That pleased me no end. • It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day, and we were out in it. • First was we ha...
A GOOD DAY in Postcards 4
• My blood pressure is back to normal. The 02 in my blood is much improved. • That pleased me no end. • It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day, and we were out in it. • First was we ha...
GRANDKIDS in Postcards 4
…AN EMOTIONAL DAY. From the top: Courtney, Vinnie, Megan, and Nathan. 1993. Ellen took in some remarkable kids, and she worked very hard with them all. Nathan is a skitzophrenic, and Alex...
The OLD TOWN HOUSE RESTAURANT in Postcards 4
During the 1980’s, I did a series of pencil sketches of some of the downtown businesses. Frankly, I was very surprised to see this one yesterday. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
AIDS WALK WEEK in Postcards 4
Three AIDS Walk Panels together. • It’s been AIDS walk week here at the end of September. Both George and I were once very much a part of the AIDS Quilt Organization. AIDS is now much differe...
GOOD AND THE BAD in Postcards 4
There are days with major surgery recovery when nothing goes right. They may have told me not to build a rock garden after my Gall Bladder surgery, but I didn’t clearly understand why not. Now...
ELLEN in Postcards 4
2005: Nathan, Ellen, Mage. Ellen loved kids so she adopted five of them, many with special needs. Last night she died after a long year of not being well. Her kids, now our grandkids ha...
LONGING in Postcards 4
Somethings show a bright light…like Bobbie, above, heading to New York to set up a show. Like the doctor taking out the stitches. Like the doctor releasing you back into the world. It’s very...
FALL in Postcards 4
There they were. Three golden leaves to greet my eyes this morning. So unexpected. Just those on that one big tree. They gave me joy just by being there. I had a very-not-ok day yesterday. ...
PANTING PROGRESS in Postcards 4
1966. • Took child and G-child out to dinner, and Zoë’s tummy wasn’t happy. • I haven’t been very ragingly hungry either, come to think of it. • The days have been beautiful. • I...
THANK YOU in Postcards 4
Flowers from the Office. Thank you all for the flowers, letters, cards, notes, suggestions, and caring. I appreciate every one more than I can say. DeAnna, who writes, has written three c...
ALL THOSE DAYS GONE BY SO/SO FAST FAST in Postcards 4
<center></center> If you don’t want details, don’t read. I’m home and fine. I’m still coughing terribly holding my side to hold myself together. No longer do I cough up great gob...
BOATLIFT: 9-11 in Postcards 4
More people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan than were evacuated from dunkirk. To View this full screen, click on the video twice. To return the video to this format, push escape.
LITTLE THINGS in Postcards 4
2007 It’s been finishing the little things this morning. In front of me, on the wall, are grandchildren pictures. I have permission to show some here, but I haven’t asked about some of th...
KEEPING STILL in Postcards 4
Ever since I found out I had lung cancer, I have been in a holding pattern. Keeping still. Reading slowly and understanding the written word as much as I can. I stopped taking the pill p...
FIVE HOURS in Postcards 4
1980 The sky was blue this morning. The leaves were a penetrating green. I never noticed any of that yesterday morning. We went to Dr. Sise first. He first said he read the reports and...
ANOTHER NORMAL in Postcards 4
The nice new heart doc posted the results of the Stress test; “PROCEDURE A Dobutamine stress echo was performed. The study was technically difficult. Echo contrast injection was performed....
HAPPY, JOYOUS, AND FREE in Postcards 4
Mid afternoon, the Pulmonary doctor called. The cancer had not metastasized to my brain, nor did my brain show any sign of any senior diseases. His Words. Normal he said. After chatting with...
SLEEP AND OTHER NONSENSICLES in Postcards 4
The Louis Comfort Tiffany dome in the old Chicago Library. • I love quiet days, and lazy afternoons with a good book. I have the good book having just started book four of the Amish My...
IMAGES in Postcards 4
2011. I spend some of my day reading and some sorting images. Or trying to find images. I really like this picture though it is out of focus. What a wonderful reuse of an old cigarette mac...
SMALL ADVENTURES in Postcards 4
Chicago on a rainy day. • We took George to the doctor yesterday for a trigger finger and his “other” knee. The doc pulled a lot of fluid from the knee, told him to wear his wrappings a...
