Black Oak's Daughter

Today is Saturday.  I got up early, had an awesome, healthy breakfast with a dear friend.  She is an employee of a national tax prep place, so she also does my taxes, at a greatly reduced rate, for which I’m extremely blessed. They were done and filed before 8:30 this morning. I owe a few [...]

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I’m in full blown Christmas mode now.  I am fortunate that my company gives us 2 free floating days a year and I’m the fool that forgot to take one. So I talked to my boss and he’s letting me cram 2 hours at a time in here and there this week because I’m off [...]

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I woke up from surgery cancer free.  It was a long month and a half between diagnosis and removal. That time changed my life.  I found out how much I could trust my friends and family to stand by me. I am very blessed with love in my life.  In the inevitable process of evaluating [...]

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It’s been a busy week with extra stuff to do almost every day.  Today’s chore was to go to Target and pick up my prescriptions. I had a few other things to pick up too, so I shopped a bit. I got to the checkout, and the turkey breast that I picked out for Thanksgiving [...]

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I collect teddy bears.
I have one rule: they must be clothed. There is one exception to this rule in my collection, that bear’s got back though. It’s hilarious. Anyway, he’s now wearing a bow, so he’s no longer naked. None of my teddys are in my collection because they are collectible. They are there because [...]

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When I was a kid, Halloween was a lot different.  We dressed up, and had parties at school. Masks were allowed, but we mostly just wore them for the costume judging, and trick or treating. They weren’t really comfy enough to keep on all day.
After school, we trick or treated all the way home.  It [...]

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I haven’t had a cold in three years. I’ve had a couple of other serious things, but thankfully, I’ve been blissfully virus free.
Until last weekend.
I’ve spent the week trying to keep the symptoms down with out ODing on cold meds that kill my kidney, doubling  my standard antibiotics so it doesn’t turn into a sinus [...]

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Yesterday was my 43rd birthday. I celebrated by kidnapping best friend from her family, dragging us out to Galena to meet with my favorite daughter and son-in-law. It’s a day that’s best written about by it’s defining moments, so here goes:
Best moment with my best friend: aside from discussing the hotty, straight off the boat [...]

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I’ve been going through life lately, open to signs that things are going in the right direction.   For example, when I went out to Minime’s place two weeks before the wedding, there was a rainbow, not just a pretty little rainbow, but the biggest honkinist rainbowie rainbow I’ve ever seen, and it stayed in front [...]

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A friend, and fellow cancer survivor, posted this on Facebook yesterday:
The Cancer of Life…
I’ve frequently and painfully realized,
but seldom given it a deserved voice
there are many more forms of untreated cancers
than the ones they can treat right now.
Some are frequent yet subtle visitors
ignored beyond the hectic pace we keep
while others slap us back to cold [...]

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