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I live on the west coast, in Southern California. I've written poetry for many years and have been published in a half dozen anthologies. My friends and family come to me when they want a business- type letter written.
I love to read and write. I find doing

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Health & Fitness > General Health (Other) Living with chronic pain: 1 of 34

Exhausting, that is the number one word to describe living with chronic pain. It exhausts your body, your mind and your spirit. An individual with chronic pain first, must deal with the pain itself. The body undergoes many changes from chronic pain. The obvious, of course, is that you hurt much of the time. The nervous syste...
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Childhood: 2 of 36

My twin sister and I were born in 1952. We were fraternal twins. Asides from not looking alike, we were so very different from each other in our personalities, as well. She was the girly girl, playing with dolls, make up and hairstyles, while I was the tomboy, forever outdoors, playing with the boys in the neighbo...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Body image: 1 of 17

As Barbara brushed her teeth, she looked into the mirror. She never thought much about body image. She thought of herself as athletic and she guessed that that did have to do with body image, but she had thought that term meant more about how good or bad looking you thought you were. She hadn't ever thought herself pretty. I...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story: 42 of 381

When I proclaimed, to my husband, Tom, that I was going to plant a vegetable garden, I was hurt at his reaction. A raised eyebrow, a questioning look, as if I were out of my mind! "What"?", I asked, incredulously. " You think I can't do it?" "Well, look what what happened to the house plants", he reminded me. I stared out th...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: What my dog means to me: 116 of 393

Ziggy. He's just a pup and a mutt, at that, but he's already captured my heart. I knew I would get a dog at some future date, but when I saw Ziggy, I knew it had to be now. He's rather funny looking, having the long body of a dachshund and the face of a schnauzer. Oh, but he has personality plus! When I throw his toy, he del...
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing The never ending journey of those living with disability: 3 of 10

Until the age of thirty-four, I had been blessed with good health. Good health that I took for granted, assuming my body would always do my bidding. Never once did I contemplate what being in chronic pain would be like. In the twenty-three since then, I have forgotten what it feels like NOT to be in pain. I had an on the job...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Body image: 26 of 65

My body, used to express what I do, who I am and how I dress. It's the only one I get, I can't buy another or even, sub-let. For the first 36 years of my life, I didn't give my body much thought, it served me well as a woman and wife. It functioned everyday and night, it responded quickly, like turning on a light. One day, s...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Wishes: 50 of 124

As a young child, I had wishes, tame and wild. At Christmas, I wished for things, like bikes, dolls and golden rings. When I was a teen, I wished for things I hadn't done or hadn't seen; to vacation in a cabin high on a mountain, where I could feel the warming sun, with a roof made of rusting tin, the better to hear a summer...
Style & Beauty > Skin Care (Other) Everything you need to know about treating warts at home: 3 of 6

*WHAT CAUSES WARTS* Warts are caused by the Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. More than 70 types of HPV have been identified. 8-10% of the population has warts. Women are more likely to have them than men and children more likely than adults. Warts are contagious and have an incubation period of 2 weeks to several months. Most w...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: The pain of living with diabetic neuropathy and herniated disc back pain: 1 of 2

You can have empathy for someone in pain. You can sympathize with them, but unless it happens to you, you can't know how someone's life can be totally affected by chronic pain due to a herniated disc. At first, I thought I had just pulled a muscle at work. Though I felt like a fool, I reported it to my supervisor. I felt it ...