Inside Gigi’s World
Pardon Me While I Rest.
I know. I know. I didn’t post at all last week. I probably feel more guilty about it than I should. I bet no one even noticed that I didn’t write anything but on Wednesdays I write and last week I made a conscious choice to not write at all. If I am being honest,…
The Daily Writing Prompt…Can I Even Think of 30 Things?
I’ve been busy doing a lot of things, time-fillers that make my brain just a little weary and a little bit zapped, things that make it difficult to get a clear thought onto a piece of paper…or computer screen. I wasn’t sure what I was going to write today, I have a few things in…
July 23, 2025
This picture hangs by my vinyl player. I see it every day and every day it makes my heart smile a little. It’s old, well, older…I don’t know, what constitutes a photo as old? It was taken in the sumer of 2009…sixteen years ago. I was pregnant with my youngest child who would be born…
Brain Scan—A True Story. Part Three.
The MRI technician hands me an oversized hospital gown that should go to my knees but instead dances flowingly around past my ankles and a pair of hospital pants with a distinct pattern of stripes and polka dots which are colored baby pink, mint green, and sky blue. The pattern looks like the 1980s regurgitated…
Brain Scans—A True Story. Part Two
* * * * * “My right eye has been bothering me. I’ve started having some double vision in it but the thing that drives me most crazy is it droops sometimes. It looks half open.” “It doesn’t appear to look that way to me. It looks strong and healthy.” “Well, it only does it…
Brain Scans—A True Story. Part One.
It’s raining…again. It feels like that’s all it ever does in New England now. I’ve started to forget what the sun and dry feet feel like. As my car keeps hydroplaning I think it probably would have been better if I had driven a boat today instead of a car but I have no boat,…
300 and Some Odd Days
I know I keep saying this, it feels like a constant theme of most of my writing lately but it really has been a year. And I am not talking about the good ol’ calendar year—although the last few Januarys to Decembers have felt a bit like a shit show. But instead a calendar year…
11.
About a month ago I went into a store in my town—a store that I go in to frequently because I buy my ice and tin trays (for tie-dying) and my candy stash to share with my students (which one tends to go through a lot of when you work at a high school). I…
June 11, 2025
What notable things happened today? And who gets to decide? I woke up. I got out of bed. I ate a red solo cup full of cereal and drank the sugary-cinnamon milk that waited for me at the bottom while I consumed my now soggy, crazy squares that I had been craving from the night…
The 2025 Live Music Bucket List
Music has always been an integral part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are standing around my Mem’s piano at family-get-togethers. The family would loudly be singing along as her fingers—which were normally painted various shades of red— stroked the keys, changing tempo and rhythm as the song changed. You are my sunshine,…
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