reading time: < 1 minute I just looked at some of the other blogs that participated in the Tuesday blog meme I did in my previous post. And one thing was very quickly clear. I don’t fit in. At all. And that’s a little lonely. The blogging community I once knew is gone. It’s very […]
reading time: 3 minutes The last few years have changed me. Maybe, at least in part, that’s the price of aging. The “with age comes wisdom” thing. Perhaps that is part of it. But I think a bigger part of it has come from both within and without, the price of the Trump years. […]
reading time: 2 minutes So blogging definitely fell by the wayside for most of the last two years. I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted. A lot has happened since then, life-changing kind of things. Since my last post in March of 2017, I’ve published four books, four novellas, one […]
reading time: 2 minutes I want nothing more than to stay in Hawaii when Corey ‘s time is up in the Army. This place is my soul home and it would break my heart to leave. I’ve been doing lots and lots of research, looking for affordable homes in paradise. And that is not […]
reading time: 2 minutes So it has been a very long time since I’ve written. Life took a downward turn, which I wrote about here. I suppose I had a rough time adjusting to that for a lot of reasons. I had a lot of dark days that really took a lot out of […]
reading time: 2 minutes I had a homework assignment this week for my Craft and Practice in Creative Writing class. It was an “observation and reflection” free-writing exercise for which we were to take 20-30 minutes in some familiar setting. For the first 10-15 minutes, we had to simply observe on our surroundings, considering the external […]
reading time: 3 minutes Living and Learning I am a big believer in trying to find a silver lining or lesson in everything that happens in life. That’s my way of trying to make something good of situations and experiences that are often anything but good. Sometimes those lessons are positive; sometimes they aren’t. But […]
reading time: < 1 minute I think that Army marriages should have some kind alternative numbering system. I wrote a status about our anniversary on Sunday, joking about how rarely we are together for it. Counting this year, we have been together for exactly one half of our anniversaries. The balance is starting to tip […]
reading time: < 1 minute This weekend was pretty awful. We had to say goodbye to our beloved Steer this weekend. In January, he came down with something that no one could diagnose. Extreme weight loss and what seemed to be rather extreme dementia and personality change. In the last several days, it seemed as […]
reading time: 2 minutes I suck at letting go. I can also torture myself with the best of them. I can make connections between things that happen that will lay me out. No matter how hard I try not to, I let the asshats get to me. Add to all of that, there are […]