Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria

Poop-a-loop. It seems…..that as hard as I try to make my life simple, sometimes life is just hard. And I don’t try to make it hard. But lately, lets really face it. Life is kinda hard right now. When life is hard the thing I really, really, really like to…

And so you’re back from outer spaceI just walked in to find you here with that sick look upon your faceI should have changed that stupid lockI should have made you leave your keyIf I’d known for just one second you’d be back to bother me Lordy. How are we…

We said goodbye to my Gran this weekend. It was lovely and sad and heartfelt and full of family. I had the honor to share my thoughts at the service. I thought I would share with you 🙂 Earlier this year my Gran, my mom and I all qualified for…

There are five more days left in July and I am hoping they pass quietly into August. For those who know my July, you know it is fraught with loss and love and hope and an underlying tide of grief more evident in other months. Granny’s passing was just another…

On February 14, 2021, I posted that I was changing jobs in the middle of a pandemic. Here I was, all giddy and nervous….leaving something familiar that I knew well for that bright shinny penny at the bottom of the pool. You know what that experience was? It. Was. Awesome.…