Starting Over at 60 blog I was blindfolded and being led out of my own house. Flanked on either side by two people, I didn’t know what was going on. I could feel my heart beat faster. My breathing sped up, too. I heard shuffling all around me. Suddenly, a loud “woooo” sounded from… whatContinue reading ““You’re Always 39,” excerpt from my book coming out in 2026”
Author Archives: Cheryl Wipper
Crevice
Into the Wilderness: Story 59 I’ve been thinking a lot about attachment. Some people can cut people out of their lives as simply as lancing a pimple. Slash and the connection is gone. Not me. I’m more like the grown-too-big baby kangaroo no longer able to fit in its mama’s warm pouch. I keep tryingContinue reading “Crevice”
I failed my MRI, and I’m alive because of it
Into the Wilderness: Story 58 Ten years ago, I was hospitalized with acute abdominal pain. My temperature was 105, and I was vomiting and crying with pain. Less than an hour later, after an MRI with contrast, the young, extremely tall doctor pronounced: “gallstone-induced pancreatitis.” A gallstone had lodged in my biliary duct. The resultContinue reading “I failed my MRI, and I’m alive because of it”
Please, And Thank You
We are entering the holiday season when gratitude, gatherings and gifting carry us to year’s end. I rarely ask for favors or gifts, but I am boldly asking for one now. If you have not done so, will you please, dear readers, directly subscribe to this blog? It’s simple to do. Just go to walk-the-moon.comContinue reading “Please, And Thank You”
A losing equation
A Surviving Facts blog Sometimes I wonder if loss ever goes away— the feelings of loss at least. Loss is such an amorphous and capricious emotion. It can be as trivial as the loss of a sweater on a trip or the loss of something profound— a job I held for 24 years. About thatContinue reading “A losing equation”
The New Nasty Woman: Marjorie’s Movement
A Surviving Facts Blog What the heck has happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene? Seriously. When did the scales fall from her eyes? And how? What did it? What specifically? Here’s my theory. Supporting Trump has been similar to being in an abusive relationship. Battered women’s syndrome occurs when a woman has been in a violentContinue reading “The New Nasty Woman: Marjorie’s Movement”
Is Project 2025 the far right’s Nuremberg Laws? Part 2 of original blog published March 2025
A Surviving Facts blog Last March, I wrote a blog about Project 2025 being the far right’s new Nuremberg Laws. Forgive another “told you so”— last week I re-published with commentary a blog on the billionaire bros and other Top 1%ers not being nice people— but I predicted this development as well. Now, the remainingContinue reading “Is Project 2025 the far right’s Nuremberg Laws? Part 2 of original blog published March 2025”
Yep, They’re Still Assholes- Part 2 of original blog
A Surviving Facts Blog Forgive typos— I’m having a moment. I wrote this original blog a few months ago before billionaire greed moved more into the spotlight. Recently, Billie Eilish, Rachel Maddow and Steve Colbert have all chastised the billionaire bros— Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk— for their greed. Billie and Rachel, both accepting awards for theirContinue reading “Yep, They’re Still Assholes- Part 2 of original blog”
Ghost Story
Into the Wilderness: Story 57 The political landscape has been such a roller coaster that I couldn’t bear to dwell on it. I’m both heartened by the democratic “wave,” as it’s being called, and terrified of the possible increases in my ACA premiums. So I have decided to write about something more predictable than today’sContinue reading “Ghost Story”
Get Thee Behind Me
Into the Wilderness: Story 56 My fourth grade teacher scared me. I grew up in Oklahoma in the center of the Bible Belt. Although church and state were supposed to be separate, I had many teachers preach the gospel in public school. I was a Greek Orthodox Christian, a pomp and procedure religious practice veryContinue reading “Get Thee Behind Me”
Walk the Moon 