This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog post series regarding events leading to a second Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery, taming surgery anxiety, and post-surgery recovery. Read Part 1 here. So you’ve made the decision to have joint replacement surgery. What next? For me, I needed to get my anxiety about the surgery under …
This is Part 1 of a 3-part blog post series regarding events leading to a second Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery, taming surgery anxiety, and post-surgery recovery. Read about my first TKR here. In the days leading up to the surgery, all I can think is – Am I a masochist? Why am I doing …
You’ve been struggling with physical things lately. Increasingly you need help. Your joints are swollen, you’re losing energy to keep up with the things you used to do all day long. Your doctor runs tests. You spend a few weeks anxious about the results. And then they finally return with the results and jovially claim, …
Is arthritis causing you food security anxiety? What if I can’t feed myself? My family? My community? These are realities most in this generation have never experienced. But lately, pandemics, shortages, and world events, all contribute to feelings of panic. In the last few years, going to our jobs to produce money for food and …
Are you caught in a gardening quandary? Gardening is your passion and it’s what you want to be doing, but your body’s not cooperating? There are many good reasons to continue gardening well into old age. Gardening’s good for your health and well-being Gardening provides movement for your body and joy for your mind Gardening …
You probably think this song is about you… I’m thinking a lot about vanity lately. Carly Simon’s voice keeps ringing through my head telling me it’s true… I am vain. I don’t like to think of myself as vain. An exaggerated sense of self-importance is an unattractive human trait. You might ask what’s got me …
My tomatoes have been outstanding this year. The whole vegetable garden has produced beyond my expectations. I think it’s because of the Korean Natural Farming (KNF) methods I’ve been learning to implement. But that said, a few tomatoes are having problems. I think it’s blossom end rot, but I’m not sure. It looks like a regular, almost …
I’ve been reading and listening lately about being enough and having enough. About “I am enough” and having an abundant vs. a scarcity mindset. And I realize there’s one thing I have an abundance of right now, and its cucumbers. The Japanese cucumber that I planted this year from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Aonaga Jibai, …
The State of Texas has just announced that due to COVID-19 the State Fair is cancelled this year. What? It’s not fair, I hear myself whining. I don’t like that whiney voice inside of me. I shut her up immediately. Of course, it’s fair. Despite all the people who won’t get to enjoy the annual event, all the kids …
When I was a child, my rural-Arkansas-born parents gave me and my siblings the gift of experiencing the world! My dad was in the Air Force and we traveled, moving every 2-3 years, sometimes to foreign countries. It all seemed normal to me then, but looking back, I realize how incredible it was. My parents …