For all my friends who heard the sad story of my throwing away 20 years of mine and Pretty’s movie ticket stubs when I came home from my knee replacement surgery in May, I have good news. I found the box of missing ticket stubs last week in my office in the same place I thought they should be – except that they were hidden under a decorative gift bag I had been saving since our 10th anniversary celebration ten years ago. I swear I have been looking for that box of memories everywhere and nowhere apparently but was thrilled to find them before tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the day for my second knee replacement surgery which is proving to be as fun as the first one was.
I have instructed Pretty to keep me away from the computer for the next couple of weeks since I clearly am not responsible for the fog that anaesthesia brings. Thank goodness for the US Open – so far my favorites, the Williams Sisters and Rafael Nadal, are through to the second round. Life is good.
Catch you on the flip side.
Stay tuned.
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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Sheila, you will be in my thoughts all day tomorrow. Good luck, but don’t break a leg. Get well soon. I’m glad for Pretty’s sake you can binge watch tennis. 💕
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That is really a bonus, Ann!! Pretty has sworn to withhold pain pills if I don’t behave!!
Thank you for thinking of us…I’m sure she will post something on fb.
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I wish you a speedy and complete recovery!
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Thanks so much, Cindy!!
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I will be thinking of your polar bears
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Good luck with the op.
Thom
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Thanks so much, Thom.
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Here’s to it all going swimmingly. It really is a ‘thing’ this anaesthetic fog — after 8 weeks it should lift. Then there will be no stopping you!
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Thanks, Annie!! I lucked out with the US Open – I can have Pretty keep the tv on for me while I doze in and out…
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Sending positive thoughts and wishes for a speedy, not-so-foggy, recovery!
xoxo
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Thanks, Bob!!
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I hope your op went well, wishing you a speedy recovery.
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Thanks so much, Charlotte. Hanging in.
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