“We don’t have sisters, Jo Ann…”

About a month ago my good, old friend said to me, “We don’t have sisters, Jo Ann. We need people at different phases of life”! That was when I was in the middle of a battle royale with an infection that started in a failed root canalled tooth and spread to my face and neck.Continue reading ““We don’t have sisters, Jo Ann…””

Mother’s Day Pity Party for One

Mother’s Day is complicated. I always wanted to be a mother. But, like most things in my life, I expected I would never be afforded the opportunity so I would pretend I never wanted them; to protect myself from the hurt when they never came. I had a friend in high school who once jokedContinue reading “Mother’s Day Pity Party for One”