Sitemap - 2025 - From My Heart to Yours

The Big Ugly Bill Will Kill Us All!

All Politics is Personal

Hospice Update June 21, 2025

Society Doesn't Understand How Much We Need Disabled People

Hospice Update June 16 & 17 - Reasons to be Grateful

My Essay, "One Dog, Two Hearts" to be Published in Anthology

Hospice Update June 13

The Long Walk Home

Finding Moments of Joy in the Midst of Crisis

Hospice Update, June 1st

Reasons To Go On Living

Medical Trauma - A Personal Case Study

I Died 21 Years Ago

The Interplay of Medical Trauma and Pre-existing PTSD

Do You Need a Team of Superheroes to Battle Mental Illness?

Surviving Mother’s Day as a Motherless Child and a Childless Mother

My Sweater Song – Read This Thread as I Come Undone

Life Goes On - Until It Doesn't

My Father the Artist

Gratitude - Redux

Poet Review of the Week: Jessica L. Walsh

Tennessee Whiskey and Mountain Moonshine

Poet Review of the Week: Courtney LeBlanc

Getting to Know My Father at the Same Time I’m Losing Him

April Poetry: Best Laid Plans

April Poetry: Asking the Body

April Poetry: Bread, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

Poet Review of the Week: Danielle Coffyn

April Poetry: Wetland

April Poetry: Mistleheart

April Poetry: Lillith’s Bloom

April Poetry: On a Dark Horse Riding

April Poetry: 42 Scars

April Poetry: Flying Standby

Poet Review of the Week: Joan Kwon Glass

April Poetry: Dancing Against the Dark

April Poetry: Failure

April Poetry: Hunger

April Poetry: Bone

Why Do I Bother Writing Poetry When It Doesn’t Really Matter?

Hope & Healing & Second Chances

Caring for the Caregiver

Finding Hope in Hospice

Choosing Comfort Over Cure

Interview with the Creatives Mirror

Operating Without a Safety Net

Everyone Needs an Advocate - Some of Us More than Others

Was it a Scam, or AITA?

Hooray for Spring!

Why the February 28 Economic Boycott Won’t Work

Today is Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day

Mortality, Morality, and Meaning

We Have the Power of the Purse

Save Medicaid - One Small Action You Can Take Today

How To Succeed in the Writing Game

Happy Valentine’s Day - Why?

That One Time I Showed My Ass in Nashville

My Secrets to a Long, Healthy Life for my Senior Dogs

February is National Heart Month

Homelessness Is Not a Retirement Plan – Seniors on the Streets

What Is Empathy

Winter Blues and January Grays

Furry Friday: My Experience with Librela Injections for my Dog

Hope on a Half Shell

MLK Day

Follow Up On "Too Sick Too Work"

Subscriber Chat This Saturday!

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Too Sick to Work but Too Healthy for Help - How Disability and Poverty Go Hand-in-Hand

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Who Do You Think You Are?

When Friends Don’t Call Anymore

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Today is the 19th Anniversary of my Heart Transplant

Saturday Shenanigans!

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Our Lives!