When a Christian friend offered to pray for me, and I facetiously declared: "I'd need a miracle!",  he asked me what that miracle would look like.   After some serious thought, this was my reply:

If I could have a miracle, I would want one year.   One year to be a normal person, with a normal body, and normal problems (I'll deal with heartbreak ( Read more... )

A two and a half year-old girl tried to shove something into my mouth today. I recoiled automatically ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, it's not halloween yet. With my entire mouth oozing with blood and my 6 front teeth entirely gone, I'm sure I could've won the prize in any costume competition! I'm still waiting for some poor jerk to tick me off enough so that I can feel justified in freaking him out by snarling and hissing from my bloodied mouth like some kind of ( Read more... )

Aside from all that stuff I lost in Toronto when my back broke open without my awareness, there is one other thing I lost just before leaving Toronto:

another tooth. yeah ( Read more... )

Ok you horror fans. Here they are. I've finally received the pics that I had taken at the dentist. Two sets were taken, one a year ago when things were critical back then, and a year later when they're dreadful. And I do mean dreadful ( Read more... )

I realize that I've never told the whole story of how my teeth got to be as bad as they are. So for all of you who've asked or wondered, voila:

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"We're going to lunch, Kristine - you coming?"
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