BRENNAN, Allison

Slow400
Best known for Bridges of Madison County
[why isn’t that here?).
THIS tome isn’t an happily-ever-after [though so close..]
but rather a journey…

Oil & Water

2018/10/22 by On the River, posted in 2018, men, sex

Wordsmith: Player

alas, alas: ?/mis-read body language and VERNACULAR* barriers

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.”he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience”
synonyms:
language, dialect, regional language, regionalisms, patois, parlance;
More idiom, slang, jargon;
informallingo, -speak, -ese “the preppy vernacular of Orange County”
the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity.
…(language) spoken as one’s mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language…

Body Image – ADJUSTMENT

2018/10/19 by On the River, posted in 2018, FOOD, medicine

Once upon a time I was an ~120 lb. womyn
[too old for auto-metric-1]
a nurse who could transfer double-amputees on her own, with the most gorgeous gams-2,
and a perfect heart-shaped bum

Then I semi-retired and –
gained ~20 lbs. – all my friends said I’d never looked better.

Then THING-A happened and…

I shrunk to a 100 lbs. in mere months.
The proverbial “Healthy as a horse” FOR 47 years, I was
blessed w/ a constitution that ensured [Nse.-]Managers
I’D make MY shifts while others dropped around me.

First came Early-awakening, which HAD left me awakening in the dark for ELEVEN YEARS;I have finally awoken in daylight – 2018!
Then THING-B happened, Chronic Disease#1 d/t SIDE EFFECT of meds;
pretty unforgivable considering thr environment I was inhabiting @ the time!
Tardive Dyskinesia ROBBING me of my trademark, life-long smile!

[and ensuing, distinctive! laugh, that assured that altho 5 ft. 3″
could be located in ANY room, even a Ballroom!

3. Waiting in-the-wings was GOUT [of the foot] from my father

[women may inherit this only from their fathers, and it generally first appears circa menopause].

Then THING-A kind-of re-occurred,

BUT I Found THE greatest [and only] course in Niagara,
and I also have the best FMD.

4. BUT Next has come the un-bearable Chronic Disease#x.
leaving my life nothing but a fantasy.

Footnotes;

1] DID YOU KNOW? Canada has been officially metric since 1980.
Compare THAT to advertising fliers…

2] plural noun: gams a leg, especially in reference to the shapeliness of a woman’s leg

INSOMNIACS – Early Awakenings – HOPE

2018/10/162018/11/26 by On the River, posted in 2018, Depression, medicine

After ELEVEN YEARS!
I actually awake MANY TIMES in the light-of-day
this last summer and fall!

INSOMNICS ?
2018-11-26 INSOMNIACS ?

Queen, The

2018/10/12 by On the River, posted in 2018, BOOKS

QUEEN500
a gift from my cousin Steven

Patterns

2018/10/10 by On the River, posted in 2018, ARTS

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…also strains of [Medical] Marijuana [Canada]

I have NEVER been a “clothes-hound“, and have ALWAYS preferred to “read one more chapter” THAN “get up early to DO my make-up*”…but I saw first a HERRINGBONE zip-up-FLEECE-jacket and then some LINED leggings** – AND I PURCHASED THEM BOTH.

Sotted another woman on HOUNDSTOOTH.

Funny, last summer was all about acquisition of coloUr and this season, based only on sizing; changed to B&W,

Wordsmith: Player

4. BUT Next has come the un-bearable Chronic Disease#x. leaving my life nothing but a fantasy.

After ELEVEN YEARS! I actually awake MANY TIMES in the light-of-day this last summer and fall!

4. BUT Next has come the un-bearable Chronic Disease#x.
leaving my life nothing but a fantasy.

After ELEVEN YEARS!
I actually awake MANY TIMES in the light-of-day
this last summer and fall!