Life has been tough since my last posting. I live with chronic segmental dystonia, a continuous muscle spasm on the left side of my trunk. I say it started in 2018, my husband says it’s been twenty years. Yes, I suppose my piriformis muscle has intermittently hurt twenty years but since 2021 it has expanded…
My grandmother wrote a letter to each of her children almost every day, even when nearly every American home had a telephone. She talked about mundane things and ended with the pronouncement that she was writing “just to let you know that I am still alive.” In May and…
When I finished high school, I wanted to be a hobo, traveling from one interesting place to another, picking up work to finance my adventures, hitchhiking, hopping freight trains, and sleeping by the road. The first obstacle was that I was not quite eighteen and no one would hire me. The second obstacle…
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AMY FRADEL