August 2024 – kristininholland

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? Propinquity. Because it was a new word to me. That, and naturopathic anti-itch medicine for my itchy Beagle.

The Beagle that Binds

Last night, my teenager returned from his new, part-time restaurant job just after I’d finished a tearjerker of a movie. “How was your shift?” I asked, trying to stifle a yawn. “It was all right. Hey, want to watch Lost with me?”I hesitated. My body said no. I had been yawning for a while now, a clearContinue reading “The Beagle that Binds”

This Little Heart of Mine

Last week, I had an echocardiogram. This is a type of ultrasound scan used to look at the heart and surrounding blood vessels. As I lay on the hospital bed, the cardiac sonographer (the person who does the heart echo) ran a gel-covered wand over the left side of my chest. And like magic, aContinue reading “This Little Heart of Mine”