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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Hot showers and laying on the shower floor.

Where would you go on a shopping spree? Probably Alcatraz. I hear that’s going to be the Safest Haunted Peace Island Shopping Mall ever!!!

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. Are you ok?

I find out today if I will have to sell my home to make it through the next year or not. My State has approved me for a “helper”, as I am going to call him because I don’t permit myself to call him anything other. I know I have to stay as active as my body will let me, when it lets me and try to keep my mind from running a muck. Try to keep my senses. Try to keep my truth, my honor, my humor, my…

I don’t think trauma survivors, children or adults, should be held captive in the place that their trauma had taken place. You get to relive it every single day. Your anxiety will pop up just passing a house, maybe seeing an old neighbor, faces that know more of your story than you do and the shame in their eyes as they look at you. I don’t believe you can ever heal unless you get out of the box…

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? Be careful what you ask for.

What are three objects you couldn’t live without? For all the girls with uni-brows and hate it, my number one object would be tweezers. They come in handy in so many situations. Do you know how many times someone has asked to borrow my tweezers? I pluck everything. I feel it’s more of a nervous condition, but it allows me to focus in on one thing and forget the entire World for a minute. Wait,…

How do you pick the characters in your life? You find people you trust, this one was a hard one for me. I have had trust issues since I was probably born. It’s a generational pattern that I plan on breaking. Working on that at the moment… You need like interests, this is very important. You have to enjoy the life you are living in and that means both, you and your partner. Religious…

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. Ruby Red Slippers and where do you think they took me??? Home, Silly.

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? I think everyone on this Planet has unintentionally broken the law. That’s why we all know that everyone sins. None excluded.

If there were a biography about you, what would the title be? Stormy Weathers and Rough Seas

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? You have to keep your identity for your entire life. No pen names, no stage names, no new social security numbers, no more “witness protection” programs. Just real people.

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? Tell my husband. I think that is what you are supposed to do, No?!?

What is normal? I am not looking up the Webster version, but I would assume “normal” would be the average of all human characteristics. Like, the in the middle. The in the middle just sounds like they are good at lying to be there in the middle. Do these averages account for anything other than someone “not acting right”? Like, do they know what actually put these people into the mental state…

To see or not to see his shadow, that is the question? Will our little Phil end this winter freeze or continue spreading snow like frosty Jack? This sign is located in Punxsutawney, photographed by Spencer Carey https://www.tumblr.com/spencer-carrie/781391259588820992

This credit goes to my husband, he took all the pictures. I haven’t been able to post about this trip, mostly because I barely remember it. I was passed out in the back of the car for most of the trip. With MS, you are just tired all the time. Thinking will wear you out, let alone traveling outside your comfort zone and having your body respond horribly to new elevations and change in…