
Nasty, Bad, Stupid Flu!
There we were, going along our merry little way, in a day-to-day that was feeling pretty good, pretty optimistic. And then, there it was, lying on the rug where you couldn’t see it, where you didn’t expect it—the flu. It didn’t get me. It reached up and grabbed my husband’s ankles and pulled him to the ground, wrestled with him, beat him about the head and then snuck out the back door to smoke a pack of cigarettes and drink a fifth of whisky. A-hole flu! I could hear her c