While I have two websites about my fulltime RVing lifestyle - MaliasRV.com and MaliasMiles.com - I started this blog to write about aspects of my life not necessarily related to my travel dreams.2/17/10 But then again, so do the angels continue to appear, thank God… So I took the car to the Ford dealer today to get the transmission fluid checked. See my post below about how all that came about. My cousins and I thought that the transmission fluid had just bubbled over since it was [...]
I can’t even begin to describe the intense sadness of watching my favorite aunt and Godmother (“Nanny” to us Cajuns) dying of lung cancer. Seeing that vibrant, complex and strong woman reduced to a frail, physical being, sensing her spirit fading, I still marvel at how strong the will to live really is – and [...]
You ever have so much junk spinning around in your brain that you can’t think straight enough to even begin to convey anything coherent? As good a writer as people think I am, I just have not been able to find the words to explain how confused and overwhelmed I feel by life right now. [...]
Even before I got to Austin I was considering whether or not to get a newer motorhome or just fix the one I have. Inspiration is now 9 years old and it was certainly now having its “issues.” When the refrigerator went out, that was something I could not ignore. I had been living without [...]
2008 was a blur of activity with family, health and RV repair issues, but a vast wasteland as far as my having a positive attitude and being really happy with my life. In almost the entire year I have been back in Austin, no matter how much or how little was going on, I just [...]
For the last month and a half, I don’t know if I was more worried about finding out I had cancer or the nasty procedure that would snip out a piece of my cervix to find out. I had the colposcopy yesterday afternoon. I have to admit it wasn’t nearly as painful or traumatic as [...]
I’ve been so resistant to writing lately – things are so jumbled up in my mind, it’s hard to focus on one thing long enough to put anything down. Actually, whether for better or for worse, I’ve been resistant to a lot of things lately. And I have no idea about what to do about [...]
Cailie came home a couple of weeks before Cadence and we were all so anxious to see if there would be any reaction when they saw each other for the first time. But they were pretty zoned out at their first reunion and both slept right through it. But Caitlin reports now that when she [...]
Cailie is moving on to the next-step bed — one where she is not monitored as closely as she has proven she can regulate her own temperature. Good girl! Cadence is still improving from her bout with the bacterial meningitis – good girl, two! Docs say that Cailie may be discharged in the next week [...]
I’m happy to report that Cadence is doing much better – the jaundiced look is gone and she’s all pretty and pink! It was bacterial meningitis, but it was caught early and she is responding well to the antibiotics. Recently, Caitlin got to bathe Cailie for the first time and bottle feed her using her [...]