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Mentally Flossed: The Podcast

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  • Don't Hold in a Sneeze

    Don't Hold in a Sneeze
    Apr 9 2026
    Don’t hold in a sneeze.I tell you this, because I held in a sneeze on Tuesday, while walking around Target. And in doing so, I dislocated all my ribs. All of them.How did I know this?Um, I’ll get there.Tuesday, I had… I had to leave the house. Which, you know how much I love that, but I had to take 15 to his annual standardized testing, so I drove him there, and then later I had to take Daughter to her… an appointment, and then I had to go pick up 15…Oh, let me back up.I took him to his thing. I went to Target because I had to pick up meds, but they weren’t, the pharmacy wasn’t open yet. And I walked around a little bit. And while I was in, the… one of the… one of the sections—Can I tell you? I don’t go out very often. But one of the things that drives me crazy--it’s not their fault--is when stores rearrange things. So, I was very confused. It’s not their fault. This is what I get for not going out.Anyway, so I am in the, basically like their produce section, and behind me is like, like coffee creamers and milk and stuff.And I really had to sneeze, but there were people around me and I was trying to hold it in long enough to get tissue out of my purse. Um, but I was struggling, and I ended up holding it, um, and then by the time I got the tissue out, it was like… it was like over, right.And I get my meds, I go back to the car, I go home, and I’m starting to feel bad. And I’m thinking maybe--I have chronic pain--so I’m thinking maybe I was out too long but that doesn’t make sense because I walk through Costco once a month, um, when we go to Tucson, and I don’t hurt like this. Like I hurt, but this is a different hurt.Like my lower back hurts because I have degenerative disc disease, but this hurts different. Um, it hurts my…in the upper half of my torso, and I can’t figure out, I can’t figure out why.Um, so later in the day, I’ve got to take Daughter to her appointment. I have to pick up 15 from his testing. And the pain is just getting worse and I can’t, I can’t figure out what’s going on.I just, it hurts. It really hurts. It feels like I can’t take in deep breaths. The under, you can’t see me because, uh, under part of my…under my breasts, that part of my ribs. It just…it hurt.It hurt to breathe.It hurt to, it just hurt.Like I was in that level of pain where you just, you just want to vomit, right?And Peter comes home, and we medicate me, and the medication is barely taking an edge off of it. It’s enough so I can get a few hours of sleep, like four hours of sleep at a time. But it’s like disruptive sleep because I hurt.I really, really hurt.And he tells me I really need to go to the chiropractor.The chiropractors closed on Tuesdays.Um, though thinking back on it, had I called the chiropractor cause he’s, uh, we’re friends with him and his wife, he probably would have come in to help me. Um, but I was in pain and I wasn’t thinking straight.Um, so, so, um, we get me thoroughly medicated again. Um, and then, um, Daughter takes me to the chiropractor on Wednesday, yesterday morning. And he, I tell him what happens and what happened--Well, I don’t know what happened. Um, I, I just don’t know. I don’t know why I hurt.And… and he’s like he does the first thing because he normally he…he knows that I have my back hurts my lower back always hurts so he starts there, and he’s like he touches my upper back he’s like I think it’s your ribs and I was like, well yeah I think it… it could be my ribs and he laughs, because you know that’s his thing, right?So I roll over on my back, and he goes and he adjusts my ribs, and the loudest cracks, pops I’ve ever had, and I felt it be in my entire rib cage snapped into place and it hurts so much, I cried.Um, and then, you know, he… he did the other thing he does to, to realign my ribs and there was more popping. And then he did the other side. And there was more and I cried some more and, um, thankfully there weren’t very… very many people there.And, um, and you know, I was like, I don’t know what happened. I walked around, but it shouldn’t have, I’ve walked more and it shouldn’t have been this bad. And he’s like, I was like, what could have caused this?And he’s like, you know, seriously, you, you know, breathing, you eriously, breathing like too hard or too fast could do it. Sneezing can do it. And I thought back to, you know, he’s like, you know, holding in a sneeze.And I thought back to when I was at Target and I was like, that’s when the pain started. I bet that’s what it was.So he’s like, you’re going to hurt for a while because everything’s back in place and you’regoing to, it’s going to ache and it did. It still hurts.Um, I was pretty much… I was stayed pretty much medicated in bed till this morning when I needed to get up, because my hips were like, we can’t do this anymore.Um, and, uh, so I am upright and I’m achy, but achy is better ...
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  • Random Reading | Whispers of the Dead - 67

    Random Reading | Whispers of the Dead - 67
    Dec 8 2025

    Oh, so, I’ve decided to read random pages from my first published novel, Whispers of the Dead.

    Originally, it was one minute on Threads, but apparently, that’s no longer an option over there, so here we are.

    Hope you enjoy.

    If you’d like to hear more, leave me a page number between 1 and 204 (minus 67 bc that’s what I’m reading today) in the comments, and I’ll add it to the list.

    Thanks.

    Don’t miss out on future pages!

    And if you’re moved to buy my books, you can grab them here:



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    2 min
  • You Are The Best Gift I Could Ask For

    You Are The Best Gift I Could Ask For
    Feb 27 2025

    Yesterday was my 50th birthday.

    It's crazy that I got to this milestone, because if I'm honest, I didn't think I would. After all, t's been 32 years since the last time I tried to exit from this little blue marble.

    I'm glad I failed.

    The life I have now?

    I didn't know it was possible.

    I didn't believe I deserved it.

    I've made mistakes, sure, and most of them? Self-sabotage.

    I mean, those people were going to wake up one morning and decide that I was horrid, a monster, too much, not enough, etc. and leave me. Might as well be the bad person I assume they will learn I am.

    (Thanks, abandonment issues.)

    So here's to the second half of my life.

    Thank you for being here.

    - CL



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    1 min
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