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  • My 2018

    My 2018… wasn’t so great. I didn’t talk about it very much on social media, so apologies if this is surprising to some of you. I lost my sight, barely avoided a diagnosis of MS or brain tumor and instead was told I have atypical optic neuritis. On top of that, kiddo was in the [read more]

  • Alexa…

    Kiddo and I spent some time looking up the locations of the AppleTV screen savers. The one we were looking at was from Dubai. When hubby got home he asked Alexa to play a song, to which Kiddo asked Alexa to play a different song. The Alexa war escalated to the point that random songs [read more]

  • Ch-Ch-Changes

    Ch-Ch-Changes

    I’ve made a few #vaguebook posts lately, and I do apologize for that, but suffice it to say I’ve been working through a lot of things over the past year. I’m reminded of something my parents said when I was little: “You are an average of the five people with which you spend the most [read more]

  • Go to the doctor.

    I wasn’t sure I was going to post this, but decided I should. The main reason being that I want to remind my friends to go to the doctor. This is another long post, so buckle up if you plan to read this. On Monday, I saw an eye doctor about severe pain in my [read more]

  • Honor Flight

    This was an amazing experience, and I only saw a sliver of it. My grandfather, SSG William C. Perry, was in World War II and experienced it through parts of Germany and France. On Wednesday, September 6, nearly 73 years later, he and my father flew to Washington, D.C. together as part of Honor Flight [read more]

  • Amazing Accident

    Amazing Accident

    We were backpacking across Ireland and were relying on buses and walking to get us where we wanted to go. We’d just left Galway and were headed to Kinvara, which we realized after boarding the bus headed west was not a usual stop for the driver. Mat and the driver agreed to keep an eye [read more]