Posts from the Edge of the Universe

I had a moment of fear late yesterday afternoon when I began having a throbbing pain around my right ear. As the pain grew my thoughts turned to the worst case scenario — I may have a brain tumor, possible aneurism or something of the sort. I do not have a tendency towards hypochondria, either. [...]

Until April 2008, I had never lived alone. From family to marriage to motherhood, widowed at nineteen one month before motherhood, married again at thirty, divorced at thirty-three, married again at forty-four, and divorced (again!) at fifty-two. I have had so many last name changes it makes me dizzy. When living arrangements with my soon [...]