R.L.M. (Rhonda) Tipton ✍🏽 🎨🖌️📸

Under the bus you go, Florida! 😑

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Just saying, thoughtless, if not mindless, might be an excellent coping strategy right now 👌 #Buddha #buddhist

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You, too.

I had to stop some of the crush—too many appointments (Ronnie's schedule, too), very few of them helpful in any way. I finally had a word with the insurance case manager. She's talking to various referrals sites, trying streamline the chaos.

Understood. Perhaps not altogether wisely, I've stopped all doc appointments for that very reason. Wears ye oot & gets ye doon. Keep yer sanity any way ye can, and know ye're thought of 😘

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I'm trying to work on that. The trouble lies in medical appointments. I go to one, state my case, get referred to another one, go home exhausted, repeat, repeat, repeat... it's an endless cycle of foolish pseudo-treatment. 😕

Hoping yer oomph returns soon Rhonda, even if it's one wee puff at a time.
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I don't have the umph for everything yet. One at a time, maybe. 🤔

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It's a week since Issue 3 came and we're now working on Issue 4. Send us your best short stories and flash NOW!

A bit of bump in the road. We're going to close to submissions for a few weeks. Nothing terrible, but one of our editors will be absent for a while and the other editors can't pick up the slack because of 'real life' commitments. We'll let you know as soon we're open again.

Absolutely.

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

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Dear #writingcommunity...

While I miss many of you more than you know, I'm still unable to stay awake/focus much. Stress isn't helping.

4-2-2025, DOGE cut 70% of our state's culturel & arts funding under the NEH. KyArts is dead, pending appeal. Flood recovery, ditto.

Not much point, y'all. 🥺

He came back just to say thanks.. 🥹

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I have a 1T ext. HD ½ full after 10 years. They torrented about 150 of those in pirated data! The scope & balls of it cry out for justice.

What if creatives stopped goods & services for a month? No books, art, TV shows, movies, music. A month.

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I truly appreciate you. ❤️

Dammit, bad health is such a bugger. I'll keep everything crossed for ye. 🫶

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Enough said.

Summer weather is always hellish for me. We're between seasons. Where the exhaustion ends, joint pain takes up. A spine specialist appointment is on the books. At some point, I have to feel better before I can go. 😆 They never recall such limitations.

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An astute gastroenterologist tested me for alpha-Gal, a tick vectored "allergy" to mammalian meats & derivatives (in everything, Jello to vaccines!). Added to a long list of other "allergies"/sensitivities/intolerances, food options are tight. Worse, it alone can trigger chronic fatigue syndrome.

I'm alive, just insanely tired all the time. Some days I sleep 15 of 24 hours, muddleheaded for the rest of it.

Much more and I'll be starved instead of vegan. In addition to the prior list of forbidden food, I'm alpha-Gal positive now: no mammalian meat or derivatives.

Been checking every few days to see if ye'd reappeared in one piece 🤔 I could only see your blog post on Appalachian ham (looked tremendous, even though I'm teetering on vegetarian). Didn't expect disclosure of anything private, and only hope that whatever situation arose is resolvable. 🤞

I suspect it's chronic fatigue syndrome, complicated by too many [needless] appointments. Hah. The doctors are all silent as soon as anyone asks a direct question. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I'm relieved to hear you're back. I was wondering how you were the other day since I hadn't seen you in a while.

Thank you, Vaughan. I'm trying to get back to BlueSky. So exhausted...

Self-care is vital in such situations. I hope you feel much better soon.

I was replying to someone who followed me, Eric. 😉 No worries—I don't follow back empty profiles. It's just plain counterintuitive. 👍🏽

Still in a mess.

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Cheap eggs, my... 🤬

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I got up and bawled, barely finishing my story about being lost in a snowstorm with her. Truck lights magically appeared and she followed them out of the blizzard, in that little white Chevette. I left before they opened the casket. I didn't want to see her like that.

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