I lost my grandmother yesterday on Christmas. The rock of my life is gone. I'm lost and I don't know what to do. I'm numb and I'm worried. I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills. . .I don't even know where I'm going to be living anymore. I don't want to stay in SC, but I have to. Unless I can find a state without a waiting list for ADAP I ( Read more... )

Somehow I don't know how to start today's Miscellanea. Last week was a very tumultuous week for my family and we're all just a little upside down still in our feelings. Where to start, where to start? I suppose it's just better to start at the beginning.

• Saturday night my Aunt Sandy died from complications of pneumonia brought on by the H1N1 ( Read more... )

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15 years ago I met this vivacious woman, just a couple of months older than I was. She is of Gypsy heritage with full, long, black hair, and we knew once we met we'd be friends forever. As such during a circle she adopted me into her family as her brother, an adoption sanctified by her great-grandmother, the matriarch of her family ( Read more... )

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