My Cheri

A photo of Cheri looking lively and fun, she's wearing pops of bright right and has on a matching masquerade mask that is a charcoal black with a tuft of red feathers shooting off of the left side.

I’ve always believed that it doesn’t take long for a person’s real self to become known. When I let people do their thing, when they don’t feel that they need to BE anything for me, just a little patience on my part, just observing, the gates open and their true being bubbles up. I find…

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Fibromyalgia

“Living with fibromyalgia” is possibly the stupidest three words every uttered. I don’t volunteer to share or plan life events with fibromyalgia, like outings with friends, dinner dates or even vacations. I can’t even plan around it. I have to “ask” my chronic pain if I have permission to live anything resembling a life. I…

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Garth Brooks

As Garth put it, “I’ve got friends in low places.” And, (a bonus for moi), these friends of mine are, simply put, fricking amazing. They have always been THERE, and I can always find them when I’m down low. We connect on a level that is almost symbiotic and very much mutualistic. These friends of…

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The First Time Of Hearing Music

I just sat there and waited. I hesitated my anticipation of joy for fear of impending regret. Should I care if that moment was private, closing the curtains to any onlookers. I knew that soon all would be right, if just for a few precious moments, and the entire experience would be mine alone to…

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Meow and Smile

I must admit that I am exhausted from all of these people who feel the need to tell me I’m wrong. According to THEM, I simply don’t know what I am speaking of. My constant struggle is understanding why they have self-promoted to, not experts as experts go, but as supreme beings on all matters…

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Let’s get down to the nitty gritty

I, unfortunately, live in an era when words rule and actions mean nothing. I live in an era where people constantly judge based on half, or less, “facts”. I believe that the word “rumor” is much more accurate. This is the list of questions I often ask people who feel obligated to tell me the…

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Hi, I’m Frank.

Hi, I’m Frank. Well, I’m Annie but I’m also Frank. Maybe we should all be Frank? And Frankly, I am over any and all things “happening.” I can be overly Frank on such matters. I am over being told I don’t care, or better yet, understand. Don’t laugh when a millennial says that to you,…

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Doctors

Oh, so let’s talk about doctors. The medical kind. The human medical kind. The ones that specialize in knowing us better than we know ourselves. Those folks who constantly wash their hands and and like to ask “does this hurt?” I’m 53, so I have seen my fair share. General practitioners, endocrinologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists, neurologists,…

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Who’s right?

Annie's dog

During my studies of history I always silently chuckled while scratching my head in trying to understand how each side prayed to their God to be safe during battle and victorious in the war. I could see each soldier, as they rested their head each night, asking for a quick victory. They all knew that…

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The Pendulum

I have heard people say that the truth is always the truth, that to disagree is a sign of lunacy, or something similar, and that that person should be shunned. To believe in a conspiracy theory is simply to out one’s gullibility. To think differently than the majority is to show ignorance or dissidence. To…

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