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Anissa Mayhew

a new affair with an old flame

on September 1, 2010 in Stuff I Do

Tweet Before I had the strokes, I had a secret love affair. My husband knew about it. My kids were subjected to it so often they rolled their eyes. I mean, we are talking passion. The hot, steamy flames of a thousand suns. I loved my camera. I hated that the hobby that was gone. [...]

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this is the where i bang my head against the wall

on August 31, 2010 in The stuff that sucks

Tweet Frustration. I’m knee-deep in it. I have these ideas. I explained it to someone as being the point in time when I work on scraps of paper. It’s hard to describe. Difficult to define. I want to draw a picture.  It looks like soup.  Thhhhhhat’s not right. So I’m stuck trying to make others [...]

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just think, the name could be “snot and farts”

on August 30, 2010 in Stuff i write

Tweet There wasn’t much that went into the name Free Anissa. A long time ago my Twitter account got suspended because it got hacked and they thought I was a spammer. I asked a few friends to tweet that I wasn’t a spammer, and……yeah. Let’s just say the hashtag #freeAnissa started out with no deeper [...]

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I really need a different posse

on August 29, 2010 in therapy

Tweet Let’s get a few thing straightened out.  Everything may not be totally clear. I have three therapists at Pathways, which is a part of the Shepherd Center, where I do my outpatient therapy. Physical therapy – done by Beth, this deals with my walking, transferring,  lower extremities, getting up when I fall, pool exercise [...]

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making a deal i can keep

on August 28, 2010 in Faith

Tweet It’s not very often that someone will ask a question and I know the answer to it. I’m usually asking the kids answers to questions about square roots and wind velocity. But I happen to know this inside out. Sort of depressing, but I do know it. Peyton’s cancer. She’s finished her second year [...]

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lesson 1: how to laugh

on August 27, 2010 in things you have to learn

Tweet People have asked, “How can you still laugh?” To be honest, I understand the question very well. It would be just too easy to let it all take over.  To give in.  Give up. It is a slow, baby-stepping, small-improvement, thankful-for-every-tiny-thing kind of thing. And I laugh. Maybe some don’t, but I have to. [...]

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