Welcome to my blog. I write about everything here - successes, failures and stumbles in healing my heart, my home, my health and a sailboat.
Irma is on her way - no stopping her now - she's headed toward Marco Island.
Blurry pictures but vivid memories. This is my friend Tracy Ratliff and I in seventh grade on a summer trip to Washington D.C. That was my last summer in the city schools, the last summer before I was reunited permanently with my dad and my siblings. Even then, I knew I would be a writer - a reporter in particular.
Island Girl gets a new look! Read all about it and watch my video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xBEOFuM0Vk
Happy Solar Eclipse Day! This is perfect for today - I'm talking about cheese and my path - perhaps my path of totality.
June 22, I was fired - part of restructuring and downsizing - after 16 years as a financial journalist. While reeling from this sudden change, I contracted pneumonia, made a 4 a.m. visit to the ER a few hours before I was set to fly to Kentucky for my grandaddy's 90th birthday. Poop!
"Watch Your Head"
My friend Karl kept yelling "watch your head" as I headed out on my maiden voyage in my Sunfish.
You read that right - I finally sailed!
Functional medicine doctor update: I don't have leaky gut (yay!) but I CAN'T HAVE WINE, along with any brewer's yeast wearing relatives and 33 other items for three months and possibly for life.
