Now, on the reduced dose of oxycodone, there are periods between doses when I feel like a yo-yo stuck on Down. One minute I’m making an omelette, the next I’m anxious and despairing. Continue reading »
Author Archives: Annagrammatica
Audible Edibles
I don’t think that the gentle reminder I contemplate delivering — “Alexis, you’re not on The Steppes any more” — would convey both our deep affection for Alexis and our profound aversion to her dietary and culinary quirks. Surely there are entire species of microbes who think it’s the Rapture. Continue reading »
Lizard Morsels
Here’s what she did: She kind of SNIFFED. Really?! Sniff at MY sentences, will you, Ms. This-Is-Your-Brain-on-Drugs? Continue reading »
Like Noah’s Ark
I had only just that day observed that her gender was less straightforward than I had thought, and I asked if she were planning to have surgery. She replied with no embarrassment whatever that the procedure had been scheduled years ago (she’s 52) but that her partner’s death had been a crushing loss both emotionally and financially and she’d been unable to proceed with the operation. I asked and she answered a few more intrusive questions, and we went on to talk about old movies. Continue reading »
Bold Endeavor
At gas station on Golder Ranch, squeezed last driblets out of 2 debit cards: Credit Union, 52 cents; PayPal, 33 cents. Hmmm. Will this get me home? Doubtful….
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Through the Ages
I’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU ‘GET’ THIS POEM. I DON’T GET IT, AND I’M THE ONE WHO WROTE IT. THE THOUGHT BEHIND IT WAS: I WOKE UP IN A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE. NOT SO STRANGE. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, MY LIFE HAS CHANGED IN RADICAL WAYS… UNPLEASANT AT FIRST, DESIGNED (I BELIEVE) … Continue reading »
Slow Motion
July Since we arrived last year in June… …Eddie hasn’t spent much time with us. [Ed. note: The first-person plural "us" might seem clumsy here, but it satisfies our vanity and reflects our exaggerated sense of our own importance.] Eddie is busy. Of course he’s busy. At 33, he’s spent the last three years building … Continue reading »
High Plains Traveler
I AM EAGER TO BE ON THE ROAD.I long to put the finishing touches on the repaired and refurbished Pal… to turn the key and hear his motor purr…. All this not just because I yearn to travel or because I can’t wait to start showing off… but more and mostly because there is a too-serious … Continue reading »
Bright Future
ALZHEIMER’S – THROWING A LITTLE LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT HUFFINGTON POST 3/8/2012 – Vitamin D has been lauded in past research for its possible beneficial effect against the amyloid plaques that are key in Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study shows just how they may work in clearing the plaques. Research published in the Journal … Continue reading »
Out of Despair…
…Comes Mrs. Gravitas the Cat POEM-MrsGravitasTheCat Wisdom for now: You know what the voice of fear is saying. What about the voice of faith? (Debbie Ford) God is not a ‘thing’ to be believed in. God is not an entity out there, separate from us, to which we can accord faith or not as we … Continue reading »
