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a listless immigrant
“Make a list of 5 challenges of your health focus and another top 5 list for the small victories that keep you going.” . . . at first blush, a fairly innocuous writing prompt bringing to mind the hapless record shop owner in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. A compulsive maker of lists, his “top fives” run the gamut of pop culture, eclectic compilations that include his top five episodes of Cheers, top five Elvis Costello songs, and the top five “women who don’t live on his street but would be very welcome.” Like Hornby’s character, I daresay I could produce similar lists . . . my top five album covers, pizza toppings, ice-cream…
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Day 26: running on empty …
This twenty-sixth day of the Wego Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge finds me running on empty, almost out of ideas and the right words to convey them. My cup runneth over with cliches about the home stretch and the light at the end of the tunnel and how it’s always darkest before the dawn. Not to worry, today’s post is short and requires only that I create a tagline for my blog, my health condition, my self. I have written before about the inspiration behind the title of this blog that whispers daily reminders that it is time. Time to consider the lilies . . . For once in my…
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Day 24: the breast cancer lottery
Day 24 of the WEGO Health Activist Writers Monthly Challenge, and my muse has abandoned me somewhat. Less than words, today’s challenge has me pondering more the “branding” of my blog, envisioning of all things, a mascot, one that might help give my blog an identity all its own. Would it be fictional? A real person? A mythical being? Given my numerous references to our modern-day myths around breast cancer, it seems fitting for me to turn to Greek mythology, to The Fates themselves, in order to complete today’s assignment. I wonder if the ancient Greeks lived a little easier because they knew their destiny had already been decided, the…
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Day 22: a sign of things to come
