About a month ago I was at Village Books with my daughter Annie, and I spied a copy of Pema Chodron‘s Taking the Leap. This is a book I’ve picked up multiple times, held in my hand, read the first few pages…and put back on the shelf. $14. Do I really need one more book? Annie was […]
As my husband has generously pointed out, the paperwork sent home with me the other day from the orthopedic visit specifies a lateral malleolus fracture. The x-ray report in my GHC inbox states: 1. OBLIQUE NONDISPLACED FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL FIBULA. 2. OSTEOCHONDRAL FRACTURE OF THE LATERAL TALAR DOME. I have been doing some time-tripping. […]
Okay, okay, so it really is broken. The fibula has a nice diagonal crack in it, and the talus is probably broken, too. (Treatment is the same, no worries the PA said.) I’m not worried, I just don’t want to wear this dang boot 24/7. I don’t want to keep all weight off the ankle […]
I have been thinking of something my friend Madelon Bolling once shared with me, I think way back in my dissertation days at the UW: “Try to spend a little time every day imagining the unimaginable.” I want to imagine taking a trip to the British Isles (including Ireland, where my friend Cherie Langlois snapped […]