Living with Multiple Myeloma

I am a recovering queen of TMI (not to be confused with TMD or Too Much Detail).  I give more info than I should.  I'm one of those hyper-highly sensitive people for whom a little bit of love and attention go a really long way.  Maybe I give TMI hoping to receive information, attention, something in return?  I thought about this as  I have a friend of a friend who is in remission from breast cancer.  She chose to keep her cancer a secret.  I wondered why I needed to seek out connection;  to ask for so much from the universe when others could keep their cancer a secret.  I am envious of this woman's discretion, but I could not swing it.  A stag horn fern takes humidity from the atmosphere around it.   I think that people can pull love from the atmosphere.  I needed to do that.  My children, family, brothers, mother, cousins and friends have also given me a constant supply.  Bless them.  Thank you for reading. ...

I loved the beginning of The Newlywed Game.  I loved watching how the seats swiveled and swept into the room like 20th century white latticed chariots.  It was a very inane game show, with silly questions, but it was fun to watch.   In the game, newly minted husband and wife pairs were separated and spouse #1 was asked a question and to which they responded in writing on a large card.  When spouse #2 returned, they were asked the same question and their answers were compared while spouse #1 held up his or her outsized card with their own written response. If their answers matched, they kissed.   The point was really to give each couple many excuses to kiss each other on tv.   Ah.  Life was so simple. One time the husbands were asked what was considered to be the sexiest part of the human body, by some type of survey or research.    I impatiently awaited the answer.  Apparently it is one's hair.   Hence the overwhelming number of sha...