Susan Smith Thompson

This was my entry in the NY Times “Moment in Time” photo thingy, where people were encouraged to take pictures at 11 am this morning and send them in. I found out about it on Twitter about 8 minutes before it was supposed to happen, glanced over and saw my camera, waited, and snapped a [...]

I’m trying to use my phone to blog. Took forever to get to type in this field. Any suggestions?

If you have surgery, don’t do what I did. The joke in my house: my recovery time was the ride home from the hospital. Now, my surgery was outpatient and I was feeling pretty good when we left, but I basically hit the ground running the next afternoon with my regular schedule and didn’t slow [...]

I met with the surgeon last week. 12% chance of bad news: 88% chance of good news when it’s all said and done. But it’s all the same to me. If the smaller numbers actually meant something, then I wouldn’t be where I am right now. Where I am is facing a lumpectomy and biopsy. [...]

I’ve been dealing with some medical issues this past week or so. All is well, though we’re not done yet. More details soon. No worries.

It’s funny, yesterday I had nothing to write about. I couldn’t force a word or a letter past my icebound brain. The permafrost was frozen and unrelenting.
Today, tons of ideas. And yes Liz, I’m writing them down and drafting, not keeping them in my mental version of Word, the one that doesn’t save properly, [...]

Sometimes I think I get migraines as a teaching moment from the Universe. OK, I know I sometimes get them for this reason. Most recently, it was to let go of perfection, self imposed, of course.
We have guests coming in today in a matter of hours. I’ve gotten as much as I can get done, [...]

Have I found the straw that broke the camel’s back? Me being the camel, of course. I don’t know, but I’m camped out on my bed, proppped up on pillows, resting my aching back. My chiropractor would tell me, I’m sure, to lie down on the floor, my favorite position of late, but I’ve been [...]

This thing being this website/blog/whatever it is. I started it as a place to put all my writing in one spot instead of locked away in my hard drive or spread throughout the Internet. I envision it as a Jackson Pollock painting. He was the dude that threw or dripped paint at the canvas and [...]

My mom did yesterday. We hope.
She’s a proponent of preventative medicine and goes for all the health screenings. She read an article in the newspaper about a new heart disease screening process (something with the CAT scan, I didn’t get all the details) at a local hospital and signed up. I don’t know how new it [...]