Posts by Ariana
Before I start serving up the main course for this week’s topic, I’d like to start with a deeply joyful appetizer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with some of the risks for individuals with Sotos Syndrome, approaching 40% of kiddos with this genetic disorder have congenital heart defects. Because he was not presenting
Cat painted by me, printed by Andy. Dragons also printed by Andy, on my soon to be painted list. Photos by Ariana. Andy Sometimes it feels like these are times that want to clutch at every stray thought and drag them into the stream of consciousness depths via a concrete encased torpor. An epoch, it
Screenshots from an Instagram Story of an event at ICE protests occurring today in Mesa, Arizona, January 30, 2026 that hasn’t been reported on as of the time I am writing this by other mainstream local Arizona media. The first thing I want to clarify before I do anything else is that I am home
I would love to tell you that this was going to be an orderly and comprehensive post. Alas, I spent far too long trying to make some sort of headway in producing a more cohesive blog appearance, and therefore… We’re just going to do a Jackson Pollock style splattering of updates and hope at least
When Tony started his transition into the public school environment during what age-wise was his sixth grade year, I wasn’t sure the degree to which he would acclimate to certain things. I was confident we could help him develop tolerance for a typical school day, but assemblies or field trips? I wasn’t sure he’d ever
I had put a “T” on his whiteboard as an example for our son to practice drawing one of his own five days ago, and he wrote the rest of the letters without any sort of example or guide instead. Him and I at school in mid-November. Photos and screenshots by Ariana. A Quick Note
My fasting blood sugar on August 9th, 2025. All we see here in these posts is just a part of my life, just like that is just a part of my face from November 8th. All photos/screenshots by Ariana. I noticed that I stopped having blood sugar crashes a few weeks after I got COVID
Me, 26 days after my cervical corpectomy this January, and me this morning. The scar has healed so nicely, you can barely tell I had this surgery by looking at me. Reading my writing though? Lol, that is an entirely different story… I spent months not writing here and we’re already back for my second
This evening as I was eating my dinner, I received a text from my sister asking if I’d seen the e-mail yet from DDD. I quickly scanned it, and saw that Governor Hobbs is calling for AHCCCS to go through emergency rule making to reevaluate the new assessment tool and provide a process for those
If this were an episode of something more titillating to view or read, the kind with rapt viewers eagerly awaiting a happy or scintillating ending, perhaps I might start this post with something like “dearest reader…” But no. This isn’t that kind of escapist retreat, nor can I predict a happy ending. A week ago
