Chronic Pain Lifestyle

Pictures Of Me

ajmcgill — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:46:35 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. When I was in 7th grade my parents gave me a camera for my birthday. I still have it. It was a little Kodak Pocket Instamatic and it had flash cubes for...

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Where is Your Emmy?

ajmcgill — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:52:01 PDT

The Emmy Awards were given out on Sunday night. I watched all of it including the hours of pre-show speculation about dresses, jewels and who would win. The red carpet was filled with the beautiful...

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Kindred Spirits

ajmcgill — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:13:36 PDT

Some people come into your life for a short while, others become lifelong friends. They may not live right next door, but no matter where you go, they are always on your side and they are always in...

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Forever Friends

ajmcgill — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:41:55 PDT

These are my dogs Dino on the top and Sammie down below. They sleep in the family room in the late afternoon, waiting for my husband to come home from work. Dino and Sammie are different dogs,...

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"Saucepans and The Single Girl"

ajmcgill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:18:11 PDT

Living with chronic back pain is hard some days. Some days all I can think about is how much it hurts and when is it going to stop. I get angry and pout and ask myself questions like "why me?" I sit...

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"I Read The News Today, Oh Boy"

ajmcgill — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:14:22 PDT

I read the news today, oh boy. In case no one recognizes the reference, that is the first line of a favorite Beatles song, “A Day In The Life”. It’s on the Sgt. Pepper’s album if you are wondering. I...

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Farrah's Hair

ajmcgill — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:43:49 PDT

Farrah Fawcett died just a little while ago, so I'm reposting this with an added message. Rest in peace Farrah, you are truly an angel now. I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. Ashland was...

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A New Era

ajmcgill — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:57:59 PDT

It's been a long time since I posted a new story in this blog. I apologize for letting you down. It's been hard to write about anything in the past few months, because I've had a lot to think about....

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Yes Kelly, There is Still a Santa Claus

ajmcgill — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:43:34 PST

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. I never really thought of Ashland as being really far to the north, until I got older. Now that I look at a map, I guess the good part is that we were...

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The Great Milk Break Incident of 1969

ajmcgill — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:08:44 PDT

It’s a rainy Monday in October. The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground, the temperature is falling too. Yesterday’s high was in the 40’s with no sunshine, just a cloudy, cold and...

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Monster Ballads of the Seventies

ajmcgill — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:46:35 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. In the fall of the year, it was time for getting older, advancing a grade in school, new shoes, old friends and homework. The fall was the beginning of...

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Dirty Little Secrets

ajmcgill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:21:37 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. As a child in Ashland, I didn’t really understand adult secrets. They were always saying things I didn’t understand. It was ok , their secrets seemed to...

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To Every Season, Turn

ajmcgill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:10:51 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. Ashland is at the very top of Wisconsin, between Minnesota and Michigan. Back in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, the only local news we received via television, was...

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My Sister Mary, The Storyteller

ajmcgill — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:13:37 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior. In my little town of Ashland, we lived in a big house on the corner of 11th avenue and 3rd street west. It was a lovely old house, with lots of rooms for...

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Tilt-A-Whirl

ajmcgill — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:21:22 PDT

It’s the beginning of summer here in southern Wisconsin. The weather is warming up and the sounds of summer are in the air. Kids riding bikes, fireworks going off, teenagers whizzing by in their...

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Is It Ever Really OK?

ajmcgill — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:12:44 PDT

It’s another summer morning here in the great midwest. The dog on my right is snoring and the one on the left is dreaming, both of them look very comfortable and content. Every day, people ask me how...

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Choose Your Rut Carefully, You May Never Get Out of It

ajmcgill — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:45:44 PDT

What was that advice we got in the ‘70’s? Hang loose or was it everybody must get small.... no that wasn’t it either. It was the decade of decadence, nothing was small or quiet about the ‘70’’s with...

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Catching Childhood

ajmcgill — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:20:49 PDT

This morning I sat at the kitchen table, taking the pills that make me a little dry in the mouth, but also help with the pain. I was watching our neighbor’s kids waiting for the bus. I’m lucky enough...

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HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

Wanda VanKoughnett — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:30:21 PDT

It's garden beginning time for many of us, especially in the South. How and what to plant was confusing for me. I was so much wanting a container garden on my patio. With just a walker I couldn't...

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Alibis and Sunday School

ajmcgill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:08:56 PDT

I grew up in a little town on Lake Superior, Ashland wasn’t a big city, but we had a lot of churches. Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist, there were a lot of churches for such a small town. Every church had...

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