rambling Resend of Previous Post... (I'm trying to change the title to see if that corrects the error, sorry for the multiple copies!) I do a lot of my shopping online. I also don't use Amazon if I can help it so it's all done by individual companies. Which
rambling The Adult in the Room... Yesterday I kept repeating to myself, I'm 57. All day long. I'm 57. I'd look in the mirror. Fifty. Seven. For whatever reason this age is a hard one to wrap my head around. It's not like I'm horrified that
rambling Oh Good Heavens... The girl is 57... This is what I wrote in last year's birthday blog: "What do I want from the coming year? I want to be healthy. I want to be happy. I want to stay centered and calm during the coming political storm. I want my
rambling Terms and Definitions... Not quite terms and conditions, but sort of? So it's been just over a year since I got my ADD diagnosis. As most of you know I didn't do anything with it. I decided against medication for a few reasons. One, at the time, it was
rambling What Do You See... I remember that when I was taking anatomy in school and I learned about the blind spot in our eyes. I was blown away. We all have a section of our vision that is just being filled in by our brains (I guess technically it all is, but that'
rambling You'll Fall for Anything... I saw one of those ridiculous takes the other day, the ones that you see all the time now that basically boil down to "somebody was mean to me so I had no choice but to vote for Trump." The snowflake, candy assed, protect me daddy, weaklings. This
fiction Superpowers... fiction She was trying very hard not to lose her shit. She knew it wouldn't be fair to the two people in front of her in line, they weren't really the problem. Okay, they were part of the problem, but they were just the latest manifestation
rambling Context Matters... It's been really hot here the past few days. I'd say unseasonably hot, or unusually hot, but it's not really all that unusual anymore. We get a few stretches like this every year now. The fact that it took until August to reach 100
rambling Oh Sweet Child... This morning I was doing some eyebrow maintenance and as I tried to pluck out an errant hair I realized that it wasn't a hair, it was a very fine wrinkle. Which then started..."Every time when I look in the mirror, all these lines on my
rambling Digital Tidying I just went through and cleared out a bunch of library books from my Kindle library. Or ghost books I guess. The books themselves weren't really there. Or I mean, is anything really there when you are talking about an electronic book? ANYWAY... Even though I had finished
rambling Heel Heal...Heal Heel? Went to the other doctor about my ankle today. Dr. Bettencourt had mentioned back at my first appointment with him about my chronic achilles' issues that if what he was going to try didn't work there was another procedure I could try next. Shock wave therapy. I
rambling Scars... When I was a teenager I went to summer camp every year at El Porvenir Christian Camp. First as a camper then as a cook's assistant. Puppet Music camp was my favorite. For those of you that don't know there was a time in my life
fiction History Lesson... fiction She had read the story when she was a young teenager. It had been in a book that was meant to make history seem more exciting to rebellious souls. Later she found it in other books. Generally, about badass women throughout history. Which in a way made her happy,
rambling Bye Bye July... More than half the year is over. Can you believe it? I mean it seems like it's only been 100 years since January... Still ahead on my reading though I was one book lighter this month. I read the latest Stephen King book so I was expecting that.
rambling Social-Light... So my musings on dropping Bluesky lead to a few comments that made me think about it all differently. Caren pointed out that what I miss doesn't really exist anymore. And she's totally right. Talking to Joe about why Bluesky doesn't really scratch that
fiction A Quick Chat... fiction The message had been set to expire within hours not days. She guessed you either saw it or you didn't and that was just the way of things. Nobody had been referred to by name, or even common nicknames. She had been added to the group chat
rambling Anti Social... It's been almost 8 months since I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It's not been easy, as I've talked about. I miss my friends. I miss seeing how everyone is doing. What everyone is doing. But that's the thing with boycotts, it'
rambling Books and Covers... Brent and I eat breakfast out on one day of the weekend, usually Sunday before grocery shopping. One of the places we frequent the most is this old school restaurant in Hillsboro. A place where the waitress calls you hon sort of vibe. The food is very old school but
rambling Not So Easy... While I'm on the subject of the writing process... I'm reading a book right now that is okay bordering on good, but has a great idea in there. It needed a lot of attention from a devoted editor to coax out the great. It's
rambling Writing about Cleaning... It's a writing process blog! People ask where ideas for stories come from. And honestly they come from everywhere. Sometimes people even send me their ideas, and if they capture my imagination I use those. Though often the writing prompt, or idea, they sent bears very tenuous resemblance
fiction Cleaning Services (2)... fiction Cleaning Services Deborah sat on the couch with a large glass of wine next to her. Grief was creeping around the edges of her day. She knew it would happen. There was no way to comfort a friend who had lost a parent without remembering your own loss. She
fiction Cleaning Services... fiction Deborah stood at Sarah's door and paused before knocking. She gathered her thoughts, getting her own emotions under control before taking on what was waiting for her on the other side. She raised her fist to knock and the door opened before she had a chance. "
rambling Hypocrite... I've written before about how we are all hypocrites. There is nobody out there who is completely pure. The Good Place (yes philosophy from a TV show) highlighted it when they showed that nobody gets into the good place because we are all doing something with bad consequences
rambling The Wheels on the Bus... ...have fallen off...fallen off...fallen off. I can mark when they fell off. It started with the pandemic. So many terrible things can be marked back to the pandemic. You could back it up and go to the first Trump election, but let's be honest, as terrible
rambling In a Bow... Okay, bear with me. I'm going to talk about a few seemingly random things and then I'm going to tie them all up in a neat little bow. I hope. I mean, I don't know exactly how these things tie together just yet but
