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debm55

(50,744 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:16 AM Aug 13

If you would write a autobiograhy of any stage of your like--childhood, teenage years or adulthood, What would you name

The book? Mine would be the adulthood--"The Best Years of My Life" How about you?

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If you would write a autobiograhy of any stage of your like--childhood, teenage years or adulthood, What would you name (Original Post) debm55 Aug 13 OP
What a long strange trip it's been. SheltieLover Aug 13 #1
Thank you very much, SheltieLover. Great title. debm55 Aug 13 #8
Deja View; Not Again!... MiHale Aug 13 #2
HAHAHAH. Thank you very much, MIHale. I like it. debm55 Aug 13 #9
"In Search Of Roots" My Life As A Tumbleweed JMCKUSICK Aug 13 #3
Thank you very much, John. Great title. debm55 Aug 13 #10
Awakening. CanonRay Aug 13 #4
So true, CanonRay. Thank you for sharing. debm55 Aug 13 #11
Life in the Fast Lane - sex drugs and rock n roll from my teen years through my late 30's. lark Aug 13 #5
Oh, lark. Thank you for sharing. debm55 Aug 13 #12
Trust Betrayed anciano Aug 13 #6
Thank you, anciano. for sharing with us. Great title. debm55 Aug 13 #13
End of last year and all of this -- Nine months of hell and counting. rsdsharp Aug 13 #7
I am sorry for the sadness you have gone through. My husband, Rich, had Malignant Cancer last June. Radiation, meds, etc debm55 Aug 13 #14
Thank you Deb. I don't have cancer. I had prostate reduction surgery. rsdsharp Aug 13 #17
I wish you well my friend. Rich had Maligiant Cancer of the Prostrate. He is still on Hormones that he hates. Best of debm55 Aug 13 #18
Thank you so much. You're a DU Treasure! rsdsharp Aug 13 #19
LSD and Me - the Early 70s Wicked Blue Aug 13 #15
Thank you very much Wicked Blue. I hope that is behind you now. debm55 Aug 13 #16
Absolutely in the past Wicked Blue Aug 13 #34
Excellent. debm55 Aug 13 #36
"Jack Of All Trades..." ProfessorGAC Aug 13 #20
HAHAHAHHAHHA. Thank you very much, ProfessorGAC, You are excellent at a lot of things. debm55 Aug 13 #24
The Loyal Ingrate. Sneederbunk Aug 13 #21
Thank you very much, Sneederbuck. I will look for it at the book store when you are finished writing. debm55 Aug 13 #25
Hearts' Desire justaprogressive Aug 13 #22
Thank you, I love that poem., justaprogessive. debm55 Aug 13 #28
Trust no one! Ziggysmom Aug 13 #23
Ziggysmom, I can't wait until your bood comes out. Thank you. debm55 Aug 13 #29
Driven to Abstraction FalloutShelter Aug 13 #26
HAHAHAHHAH, That's a great one, FalloutShelter. debm55 Aug 13 #31
"It Gets Better" markodochartaigh Aug 13 #27
Thank you very much, markodochartaigh. It does get better, doesn't it.? debm55 Aug 13 #32
It certainly can get better. markodochartaigh Aug 13 #42
"I Only Cry if the Dog Dies" Bok_Tukalo Aug 13 #30
Thank you, Bok_Tukalo. for your touching book. debm55 Aug 13 #33
"This Ain't No Shit" cloudbase Aug 13 #35
HAHAHAHHHAHHAH. Let us know when you get published, cloudbase. debm55 Aug 13 #38
The Rockhead Files tonkatoy8888 Aug 13 #37
HAHAHAHAHAH. I'll be looking for it tonkatoy8888. debm55 Aug 13 #39
How I Got My FBI File Jilly_in_VA Aug 13 #40
Thank you, Jilly_in_VA. I love mysteries. debm55 Aug 13 #41
The sequel to that would have to be Jilly_in_VA Aug 13 #43
Oh you told me the ending, Jilly_in_VA, debm55 Aug 13 #44
"Needs Adult Supervision" Talitha Aug 13 #45
Hahahaha. Aren't we all. Thank you,Talitha. debm55 Aug 13 #46

lark

(25,454 posts)
5. Life in the Fast Lane - sex drugs and rock n roll from my teen years through my late 30's.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:30 AM
Aug 13

rsdsharp

(11,296 posts)
7. End of last year and all of this -- Nine months of hell and counting.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:42 AM
Aug 13

Brother died of covid at the end of November. Hospitalized for kidney infection in January. The day after I got home Sheri’s mother died. I was responsible for arranging brother’s interment in Iowa — he lived in Arizona. My sister-in law has been sending tons of my brother’s stuff to me. (Would you like his 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th grade yearbooks. I don’t, either. How about penciled critiques on paper towels by students when he was TA — fifty years ago. Who saves this stuff? ).

Prostate procedure in June. (Two weeks of bloody urine and a little discomfort. Suuuure). Tuesday the clotting was so bad I could no longer urinate. To the ER for the second time in a month. Spent the night in ER. Clots kept clogging catheters (three —that’s fun). Three hour surgery yesterday to evacuate bladder clots. Now in hospital.

FUN!

Sorry for the rant, Deb.

debm55

(50,744 posts)
14. I am sorry for the sadness you have gone through. My husband, Rich, had Malignant Cancer last June. Radiation, meds, etc
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:55 AM
Aug 13

It is a long journey, Wish you well, rsdsharp, Please DU mail me if you want to talk to Rich about it. Love you, Deb.

rsdsharp

(11,296 posts)
17. Thank you Deb. I don't have cancer. I had prostate reduction surgery.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:07 AM
Aug 13

I’ve been on Eliquis, which is a blood thinner. They think that caused bleeding, and urine in the bladder causes it to clot, which finally stopped me from peeing Monday afternoon.

debm55

(50,744 posts)
18. I wish you well my friend. Rich had Maligiant Cancer of the Prostrate. He is still on Hormones that he hates. Best of
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:19 AM
Aug 13

luck my friend.

ProfessorGAC

(74,450 posts)
20. "Jack Of All Trades..."
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:27 AM
Aug 13

I'd leave off the second half & let the reader decide for themselves how to finish the phrase.

debm55

(50,744 posts)
25. Thank you very much, Sneederbuck. I will look for it at the book store when you are finished writing.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:52 PM
Aug 13

justaprogressive

(5,443 posts)
22. Hearts' Desire
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:54 AM
Aug 13

The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

We both followed our heart's desire

Ziggysmom

(3,903 posts)
23. Trust no one!
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 12:05 PM
Aug 13

I was way too naive when younger. Now in my 60s the title would be, I don’t give a shit what people think about me!

markodochartaigh

(4,025 posts)
42. It certainly can get better.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:24 PM
Aug 13

It doesn't get better for everyone, but even when there is no reason for hope, unexpected events can occur which make life better. And the more that we all pull together, the more things will get better for the most people.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,047 posts)
43. The sequel to that would have to be
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:36 PM
Aug 13

Journal of a Hippie Mom, 1970-1984. After that I went to nursing school and became respectable!

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