Originally published at Diana Sherman. Please leave any comments there.

I’ve been working at this place since October.

I moved to this place. In large part because of this:Ragnar and The New Backyard.

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I’ve become obsessed with setting up my place. Which means that Apartment Therapy has become my porn.

We’ve been doing a narrative sprint at work for ( Read more... )

Originally published at Diana Sherman. You can comment here or there.

I’ll be visiting my parents this weekend for the first time since April.Except it truly doesn’t seem that long ago to me. It feels like I was just down there.

My mom really wants me to visit more often. She keeps saying how nice it was when I was visiting every other month last ( Read more... )

This has been a hell of a week. My mother got sick on Sunday. Well, sicker. It's not like anyone on chemo is precisely well. She started vomiting and getting dehydrated and by Wednesday morning she was on an IV. Honestly, it's not that different from her standard episodes of illness. Except the chemo is likely triggering it a lot more frequently. ( Read more... )

I've been in hiding mode lately. It's what I do when I'm feeling stressed or threatened. I hide. As if whatever's bothering me is the big bad wolf and so long as my house is built of bricks and  I don't open the door, I'll be fine. But that doesn't work so much. Not when the thing that you're afraid of is cancer, and it isn't even happening to you ( Read more... )

I'm wondering if part of the appeal of video games has to do with the ability to make choices. I'm thinking it does ( Read more... )

There is good and there is bad.

Good:

• My father asked to speak to J tonight, to ask him about information on breast cancer (J used his connections in medical devices to gather some information). My father was moved, and thankful, that J had chosen to involve himself to try and help.
• My father has been looking up what questions to ask the oncologist. ( Read more... )

My mother's surgery is today.

My mom is talking openly about her breast cancer now. And she told me I could, too. So ( Read more... )