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d-blooper in the sky | smartDpants
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A girl with a dumb pancreas, a smart mouth, and some thoughts on living with type 1 diabetes. D-blooper in the sky. 6am flights suck, diabetes or no. They suck for a variety of reasons including:. 1 In order to get out the door, take a shuttle to the airport, get through security (including any TSA d-hassles), and the rest of the non-d-stress that comes with traveling on an airplane, I have to get up at about 4am. 3 It’s just too damn early. No one should be awake at 4am. She’s beyond wonderful....
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letters to dear dr(s). crappy and wonderfulendo | smartDpants
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A girl with a dumb pancreas, a smart mouth, and some thoughts on living with type 1 diabetes. Letters to dear dr(s). crappy and wonderfulendo. Dr Crappy #1 (7 yrs. old): You misdiagnosed me, leaving my mom with “she’s got a flu bug” which several weeks later became me almost falling asleep in the pool during swim lessons. How could you not smell the ketones on my breath? I attribute at least part of what’s been the story of my life with craptastic body image, eating and exercise behaviors to you. I will ...
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: December 2014
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Saturday, December 27, 2014. The return of a healthy urge . Rekindling my love affair with my cameras. Flipping through stacks of books ( Mary. McCartney), looking about, camera in hand, itching to go exploring. I blame it on the sunshine. I'll bundle up and brave the cold . Say Less Create More. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. In the spirit (Christmas Eve album). Busy moments in a quiet day . Savoring the magical moments of this season . wishing you the joy of messy hands, full hearts. xo. Based in Portla...
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: 2012 - 365 project
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2012 - 365 project. A picture a day for the year. The memorable, the mundane, the moments that add up to one life. July 8 - on vacation. July 7 - in Providence. July 6 - our friday nights. July 5 - checking for voles. July 4 - fireworks. July 3 - morning walk. July 2 - i stand (inner excavation). July 1 - long days. June 30 - belt graduation. June 29 - first tomato. June 28 - my morning. June 27 - nourish. June 26 - i gather. June 25 - home. June 24 - mouse. June 23 - dragon parade. June 22 - campers.
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: June 2015
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Monday, June 22, 2015. A lightness of being . Somehow, I ended up booking three trips to three coasts in one month's time. Hence, the travelog nature of these postcards from the edge. So recent travels took the girl and I back East to Cape Cod to bring my mother's ashes to be buried with my father's. Things started off comically: do I pack or carry mom on the plane? I packed her and then warned the Delta agent "Don't you lose my mother! He wasn't quite sure how to respond to me. Tuesday, June 9, 2015.
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: August 2015
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Friday, August 28, 2015. I was having one of those mornings. Truth be told, I've been having a week or more of such mornings. Factor in the fact that I am currently. Hormonally challenged. What that means is I tend to wake up around 4 am needing to pee (sorry, if that is TMI) and then I realize what really woke me was a hot flush. I call these power surges flushes. As they aren't as extreme as what other women have described to me. And I hope by speaking nicely about them, they will be nice to me. So I s...
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The price of belonging . To belong . or forge one's own way? That IS the question, isn't it? As I watch my girl navigate the choppy waters of fourth grade social cliques, I realize I haven't progressed much myself in terms of understanding when the desire to belong may come at too high a price. Always lurking underneath my surface is a fear of losing my self in the gambit to be a part of something larger than my tribe of one. Perhaps belonging isn't really the issue? This has bee...
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Gone to the dogs . I had thought I would share about my on-going obsession with canine portraiture . and I will at another time . but as I was thinking to myself "I've gone to the dogs" I must have inadvertently called down upon myself all manner of mishap and misfortune. You see, this is the current state of my world. Okay So this is how it goes. As I've been in a month long practice called Messages Everywhere. Or more appropriately: what meaning can I fashion using the caca.
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Dandelion Seeds and Dreams: "A Day for the Book"
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. A Day for the Book". It was a day from a book,. Steeped in its own warm juice. Heavy with smells of growing . Alastair Reid, "A Day for the Book". From Weathering: Poems and Translations. Such days are a true gift: moments strung together like brightly colored beads, each one intricate and fantastic in detail and completeness. One such moment, like a core memory (thank you Inside Out. A bubble of perfection, but an entire day brimming with golden moments? The gentle and intimate m...
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