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When fear is holding things together, it gets to decide when they fall apart. And it always will — because fear is never satisfied.

God has a funny sense of timing. I'm telling you this as a friend, so you're not caught off guard the way I always am. Puppy class was not an exception.

Life really isn’t like a merry-go-round at all. It is more like a roller coaster. But dammit, grandma, not all of us like it.

Like the disciples frantically bailing water, I’m over here with my laundry schedules and breathing exercises trying hard to manage the storm myself instead of trusting that I might not actually die.

Should we eliminate some popular, but lazy, verbal shortcuts to create more meaningful interactions and deeper relationships?

Learning to make the best of something isn’t what anyone really dreams of. What we dream of is the ideal. A perfect floorplan. A well-built home. Everything in good working order.

The canisters worked great for some things (spaghetti) but not for others (snacks). And those distracting, messy packages? It turns out they sometimes have directions I need.

In some circles, there is subtle judgment that implies I did something to cause my lymphedema. Frankly, sometimes it’s not subtle at all.

But this is what the chatty shop lady and I agreed on: original art can enhance our lives in a way that commercial art can't, and I want in on the creation.

With that one shaky experience under my belt, I was a bit more confident about the trip to Baltimore, until that moment when I realized I might not have time to get to the gate.

When I think about it, one of the big reasons why my closet is stuffed with all kinds of things that are weirdly disjointed is that I have trouble knowing who I really am.

What's my opinion? I kept asking myself that question. My opinion is that 100 sheep is a lot. So, how would this guy know that ONE of them went missing?

The size of my tumor and a couple of other things were the determining factors for post-surgery treatment. I'm well aware every time I go in that this is not the case for many of the people who are sitting next to me.

Do I just show up at work the next morning in a wig? I played it out in my mind and didn’t like it.

I was weirdly calm, even proud of myself for not screaming or overturning medical thingamabobs and running down the hall in the crappy, threadbare gown.