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Surgery: Part Duex (Part Une is here) This time I made Chip come with me. (Although he spent the whole time setting his fantasty football...

The surgery center called Monday with my instructions. Nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Check in at 11:15 a.m. Which I thought was...

A couple of weeks ago I went to a pain clinic because I'd been suffering acute, debilitating back pain for two weeks and my neurologist...

I have been a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda since I saw him perform "In the Heights" at the 2008 Tonys. I remember thinking, "Wow, this guy...

This weekend I went to a bikers' club to get a tattoo. It's not as shocking -- or as dangerous -- as it sounds. It is, however, full of...

This morning, I asked on Twitter WHY a person would take someone with PTSD to a gun range, and I was called out for "victim blaming." Let...

I was 11 when I went to my first Mardi Gras. It's less scandalous then it sounds. We had moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the fall...

I'm home from the conference and it was engaging and inspirational and exhausting and everything else I'd hoped for. People I liked...

In the dream, I'd be walking around carrying all my "stuff," not finding a place. "You're not on any list," they would say to me. "I...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.