We’re back from a week-long sojourn into Canada, specifically Ontario and Stratford-on-Avon. We went for the Shakespeare festival, and ended up seeing five plays, two of which were also musicals. Unfortunately, it rained for a substantial portion of our trip, but since we were mostly indoors, we didn’t care. Tuesday we had an evening show,…

Ten years ago, I had a fusion at the L5-S1 level in my back. I have spinal stenosis and arthritis all over the place so it was pretty necessary. I’ve been relatively pain-free for these ten years until late last year, when the sciatica started up again. I got shots in my back which calmed…

Today, October 12, would have been our 40th wedding anniversary. I remember on our 39th anniversary wondering if we would make it to 40, and, well, we didn’t. We found out the day before that anniversary that the damn tumor had come back. The rest of last year was a blur of traveling back and…

Without my husband, my last blog at Mrshamill.com is defunct, and I have no idea how to resurrect it. So this is my second attempt, which is apparently necessary if one wants to be a ‘real’ writer. I have no idea what to write, but will update as the wind takes me. With luck, the…