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 Was it a stroke of luck?

“You’re lucky.” It’s a phrase I’ve heard often since my stroke—lucky to have my sight, lucky to have avoided more severe deficits, and lucky to be here.
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I don’t feel lucky about what happened. But I do feel grounded in gratitude for the path of healing I’m on, for the people walking beside me, and for the ways this experience continues to shape how I see myself and the world.

This blog is where I make sense of that journey in real time—through story, reflection, and the quiet work of rebuilding.

Creating a blog is not as easy as it looks

4/6/2021

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You can say I started this blog in August, but the truth is I just started writing things down. I actually began building this site in January and it has been a steady work in progress/failure - mostly failure. I don't remember things being so complicated. I've had WordPress blogs in the past (The Multi-tasking Mama) and they've made sense to me. So I tried creating a WordPress blog.  I guess it was not enough experience to draw from my memory.   Learning new things right now is confusing and challenging. It just never went anywhere.

So then I realized there are new sites out there - like Wix.  Who hasn't seen a commercial for Wix and how easy it is to build a site.  While it's easy, in theory, but it didn't make sense to me. So again I created a few wicks sites.  Each one just ended up getting messy. If you think about mixing colors, there's a point where things look okay and then almost suddenly too much happens and everything just turns a gross grayish-brown and there is no coming back.

It just got super messed up and unrecognizable from the template that was started. So I'd make a new site.  I remember reaching out to Maya, after I had made three sites in a row, and explaining the problem.I She immediately advised me to stand down and told me she would help me. It was probably something like, "Mom, stop making more sites".  So Maya had made her own website during her freshman year at school, and she's very comfortable using Weebly. So, that is why my site is on here.  She asked me what I wanted, what pages I needed, and in each page asked me what I wanted to use it for. She put it all together she created all of the templates.  Then she helped me understand what I needed to do and how to bring in the different elements. So yes, in theory creating a blog is easy. I think the first thing to know is what you want to write about, and then getting your kiddo to actually get it built.
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