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    Posted in cancer personal experience

    Cancer is a Full-Time Job

    Did you know that getting diagnosed with cancer is a full-time job? I had just assumed it would consume me emotionally, but really it hasn’t at all. It’s just consumed my calendar. Here’s an accounting of the first month’s worth of appointments.

    Posted on August 13, 2020 by themoderngal
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    Posted in home personal experience pets

    Us vs. Them

    I am completely embarrassed and humiliated to admit that the previously shared mouse story has become a full-blown Situation. Embarrassed because it’s easy to assume the presence of mice is…

    Posted on January 6, 2014 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise holidays music personal experience

    Patience

    I absolutely love this time of year. I love the sense of a new beginning, even a calendar-driven one. I love how the current starkness and coldness of nature provides…

    Posted on January 2, 2014 by themoderngal
    Posted in life personal experience

    Treading water

    The results are in, and the Modern Love Machine didn’t just tear an ACL. He tore the ACL and both meniscuses (meniscii?) in his right knee, which means four weeks…

    Posted on April 4, 2013 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience sports

    Two steps forward … or not at all

    As a sportswriter, I often had to write about athletes getting injured and their recoveries. Injuries to the legs, knees, ankles and feet usually were the worst, because of their…

    Posted on March 5, 2013 by themoderngal
    Posted in current events personal experience travel

    Experiencing India

    MG note: I have much to say about my trip to India, and I’m doing it with one extremely long post today and two more (shorter) posts in the near…

    Posted on February 11, 2013 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience

    Booted

    I’ve mentioned this before, but perhaps the biggest adjustment in switching from a nights-and-weekends work schedule to a Monday-thru-Friday, 9-to-5 schedule has been learning how to properly pace myself. Now…

    Posted on December 13, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in family personal experience

    Waiting

    Everything in my life has felt off-kilter since a bit before Thanksgiving, so while everyone was spreading tidings of thankfulness and joy I really wasn’t feeling it. I did have…

    Posted on November 30, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in books and magazines life list personal experience social time

    A literal literary finish line

    I was just revisiting my Life List, and I realize that I’ve checked off quite a few items on it this year. Part of that was to be expected. I…

    Posted on November 14, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in health and exercise personal experience weight loss

    Getting the Boulder Rolling Again

    The Modern Love Machine warned me after I wrapped up triathlon training two months ago not to rest too long on my laurels. ‘You don’t want to have to start…

    Posted on October 28, 2012 by themoderngal
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