8 weeks post-surgery today! In case you don’t know, while walking my dogs on the morning of October 2, I fell and fractured my femur; Multiple fractures. (You can read more details here) Within 24 hours, I was in an operating room listening to the trauma surgeon say that my life as I knew it was over. He was going to put me back together with a couple of rods and a couple of screws. Chances are it would take me 18 to 24 months before I felt some semblance of normal, in fa

For many weeks leading up to October 2, I had been eliminating stuff from my life, slowing down, asking the Universe for a little help in creating “regular-ness” in my life. The Universe spoke loud and clear – time to STOP EVERYTHING. On October 2, as I was videotaping a morning chorus from the birds, while walking my three dogs, (not practicing mindfulness) I fell and fractured my femur. I laid on the pavement thinking WTF – knowing that something was terribly wrong and