The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: ILLNESS

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style> <br />--> <div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGREmRgn70..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="231" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGREmRgn70..." width="213" /></a></div>For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Hour... BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;">I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on <a href="https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/p/th... Butterfly Hours</a> tab above. This month's prompts include: <i>hospital, hotel, humming, ice-skating, illness, kitchen table, knife, laundry, library, lunch.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ILLNESS</b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">My childhood was greatly affected by the family disease of addiction and its faithful companion, depression. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">I could fill reams with stories related to this topic. But that would mean telling potentially hurtful stories about my family members, and I'm not willing to do that at this time. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";">Also, it's simply too BIG a thing for me to address in a blog post – someday, perhaps, I'll write a book with these themes. But for now it is not a place I choose to dwell. </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";">However, should anyone reading this have similar experiences and want to talk, you can reach me by email: irene (at) irenelatham (dot) com. </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";">And, here are a couple of great/honest books on the topic:</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RLmlT2ooIx..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RLmlT2ooIx..." width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sunny-Side-Up-... Side Up by Jennifer Holm</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bqx0rB-MlF..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="353" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bqx0rB-MlF..." width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kiddo-National..., Kiddo by Jarret Krosoczka</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></div><br />