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Mary Starts a Newsletter!Remember FIZZ? That was the paid subscription newsletter I once snail-mailed to many of you. This website followed, then my Etsy store, and a page on facebook. It’s getting too much for me to maintain all that while trying to write books and make art. So instead, I am making most of my work available on Etsy, and offering a free, “mostly monthly” newsletter. So check out my new comic strip newsletter for November. Please fill out the Opt In Form—I'm not allowed to just send it to everyone on my email list—so I can keep you up on my latest work.
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Wipe-out
I did so well during my radiation treatments that I didn't expect the exhaustion I have experienced in the two weeks that have followed.
I haven't done much on the website lately, thanks to a general wiped-out condition that's suddenly come over me. A week after radiation treatments were over, I suddenly got a sore throat that quickly developed into a cold. I had to cancel a road trip I'd planned to celebrate and escape "all this". Two days of packing did me in. I even, at last, lost my appetite and still find it challenging to eat anything.
It was unexpected. I thought I'd just go back to normal: Taking to the road for a 1,500-mile solo excursion is old-hat stuff for me--I do it all the time, often leaving on a dime. I love this big country with it's web of highways and back roads that connect for thousands of miles. I'd planned to go up to Minnesota where I have many friends, all of whom dance like maniacs, even the men, and I'd planned to dance until I fell over.
Unfortunately, I fell over before I left. Had to cancel my car rental. Went to bed. Felt sorrier for myself than I had most of the past few months. Poor baby.