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Not my first rodeo

I’m coming around the bend again, she’ll be riding six white horses when she comes, when she comes, okay so that is not what is happening this time around, but I recognize all the dissonance that I am now on a first name basis with I take a step forward and get knocked to the left, knocked to the right, and I turn to do the hokey pokey only before I can return I’ve lost…

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Don’t ask, don’t yell

I have been in reasonably good health my whole life but I must say menopause and the aftermath – it ain’t for pussies (no pun intended). I won’t list the effects as you can find at least 34 of them listed here. Lately though, in reality, I have come up with some new symptoms to add to that roster. Loss of balance, lack of energy, etc. Today, I have added hair loss – my hair…

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Are you prepared?

A fellow blogger recently lost her hair because she had chemo and the growing back of it became an adventure. I was born with the grace of thick and abundant hair (thank you mom) and I have always spent a lot of time obsessing over it – getting the color right, getting the cut and length right, and getting it done right. When my mother hit 70 she started losing her hair, in clumps, and…

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