New Blog: Ticks, Poison Ivy and Cora

Some weeks are much more difficult than others.  Last week did not set out to suck, but by the end of the week, I had different thoughts.  I am not even mentioning the slick roads that froze and the cold. This week was topped off by Cora and coaches were fired Saturday Night, when to my mind it should have been Craig Breslow (ps baseball – Red Sox).

Yoshi brought in a tick that I had to pull off from him.  I hate ticks. For those of you who have not heard me say this.  I don’t remember EVER getting ticks on me as a youngster.  We were outside in fields, bushes and tall grass.  We slept outside wrapped up in our quilts in a tent we made.  We slept with Daffy, our black labrador.  That is what global warming has done to my daily life!

While speaking of Yoshi, it seems that the poison ivy is out and Yoshi (or maybe Gizzie) strolled on through it.  I have a couple of paw shaped patches of it on my arm.  This is not the first or even the tenth time.  I have a series of things I do to make it more palatable, but it still itches.  For some reason, my body does not always do the bumpy fluid filled blisters like others, perhaps it is the alcohol in the liquid  I use.  It does make it so some doctors don’t believe me – oh well.  If anything I have learned through the wound journey, my body does not always respond in ways that people expect.  

In the world of books, I have been busy reading!  This week the books were good reads, but most were just okay to me.  Both novels, Won’t Be Long Now and The Sapphire Sea had interesting characters that made the stories what they were. Next month is going to be just as busy with great books!  

Elise sent in an interview with Shari J. Ryan and her novel called The Girl With the List.  The plot has Rosalie Kaufman and Stefan Selig trying to fight for survival while in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Elise shared that the book was powerful.