My husband and I married one year after I graduated high school. He was ten years older than me but he absolutely swept me off my feet. Our first date was attending his ten-year high school reunion which seemed pretty serious to me from the get-go. When I was nineteen, we took those “old fashioned” …
When creating my personal blog a few years ago, I never contemplated how, or when it might end. Naming my blog wasn’t difficult. For me, it was a no-brainer. My Alternate Universe was the best way to describe my ridiculous ordeal. From the summer of 2016 to mid-2018, I was living a real-life nightmare. Rheumatoid …
If you follow my personal blog, you’ve noticed two phrases I use near the end of every post. One phrase is carry on, and smile along the way, and the other is, I’m good, I’m good. (These phrases do not appear in the posts I contribute for Lexington Medical Center’s, Every Woman Blog.) In my very …
Other than a few edits, my next post is nearly complete. I deleted, and started from scratch more times than I care to count. It is closure for one stage of my journey, and the beginning of the next. This transformational event was easily connected in real life, as opposed to writing about it. The array …
I will be posting the conclusion of “A Light at the End of the Tunnel” very soon. As I was writing, it suddenly took on a personality of its own. Editing and piecing Part II together has taken much longer than I originally expected. I feel this was for a very good reason. The …
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For this post, I have to go back in time a minute or two. Okay...twenty-three years to be exact. What an exhilarating day that was, and this wasn’t even the day we received our awesome Christmas gift either! That will come much later, but I will do my best to keep this post short and …
It was mid-September, 2016 and we were enjoying our short stay with our daughter and her family. We felt like Arizona USA was our second home. I believe my husband would move there today if we didn’t have close family in South Carolina and Georgia. Our daughter Tiffany and her husband Bill planned a day …
I love rainy days! I get that from my sweet mama! It is so relaxing sitting on my back porch listening to the sound of the rain aimlessly falling from the sky. Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a tropical storm for South Carolina, so I am also enjoying hearing the rustling leaves on the …
Today I created a public “My Alternate Universe” Facebook page for all future personal blog posts. I will also share the posts I write for Lexington Medical Center’s “Every Woman Blog” twice a month. I did this in an effort to reclaim my private Facebook page for my normal life...whatever normal is! I enjoy writing …
It was a chilly morning just a few weeks before Thanksgiving, 2004. We were standing at the ticket counter at our local metropolitan airport. There was no one beside, or behind us. My son was a junior in high school. He was flying to Washington, D.C. for a leadership conference being held in our nation’s …
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My husband, son, and I boarded a plane and flew to the port city of New Orleans in 2003. The following morning, we would all board a cruise ship and head to Cozumel, Mexico. We were made aware of a tropical depression forming south of the Gulf of Mexico. Our captain made an earnest attempt …
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My doorbell rang this morning as I was having coffee and writing my next post. My heart skipped in excitement as I already knew what it was...a box housing a nicely packaged styrofoam ice chest with three cold packs and bubble wrap all around my medication! This medication, that momentarily sat on my front porch, …
My Alternate Universe 