World Ostomy Day

I’ll never forge that day in the hospital when I woke up from a laparscopic procedure with an ostomy. It took a while to understand what was happening to me. I tried not to panic but I can feel a wave of worry come over me. I was scared. My surgeon performed a procedure to […]

Dirty Face

Recently someone called me vain and it made feel numb inside. According to Oxford’s dictionary, the word means having or showing excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities or worth. When I heard it, I paused for a minute as I tried to figure out how someone’s opinion of me could be completely opposite of […]

Fostering My Inner Child

As a little girl, I had an infectious smile that never seemed to go away. I couldn’t stay mad for too long and even when I was upset, my anger didn’t last very long. As an adult, this childhood picture is a reminder for me to acknowledge and embrace my inner child regularly. All of […]