I feel like I have an endless supply of these, but I’ll try to limit it to three. And, as always, these are in no particular order. 1.) This Maya Angelou quote sums up a huge lesson I desperately needed to to have hammered into my skull–but I’ve got it now: When someone shows you who […]
So, I’m not really big on risk-taking, really. I like to be comfy. I like warm sweaters and toasty slippers. I like cwtching up under blankets and reading books. I like tea and toast. I like rainy autumn days. I guess I’m basically a hobbit. I think that explains everything, because I also like second […]
I don’t dislike songs as much as I dislike musicians or bands, and I have a list of them that make me stabby. That list is long and colorful, but topping it is any iteration of Van Halen. I don’t know if I have sufficient command of the English language to fully describe the depths of my […]
Unless you’re super new here, you know that I love me some great picture books. Despite the fact that my kids are in their early twenties, my children’s book collection continues to grow. I get some to read to my nieces and nephews, and some are just for me. Because books. The It’s Fundamental – Children’s […]
It was much harder than I’d anticipated to narrow my life down to one song. But since I’m leaving for vacation four days before this post goes live, and I only have two days to finish all my work and get packed, I figured I’d better get to it. But I went with The One Who Knows […]
Two years ago, in August, I made the conscious decision to remove a toxic, manipulative individual from my life. This person and I had a decades long “friendship”. This relationship, of course, didn’t start out as the godawful, soul-crushing, gaslighting nightmare that it became. If it had, I would have run the fuck in the […]
My writing affects my life and my life affects my writing. Or something. This seems rather like a Schrödinger’s cat kind of thing. Maybe? Kinda? Let’s roll with it because this graphic amuses me. Rather than going into a long, drawn out treatise on how this all works, I’m just gonna share some examples of […]
There’s that adage that you see all over Pinterest – or, at least, you do if you spend as much time there as I’m known to do, that says: It’s not happy people who are thankful. It’s thankful people who are happy. I think there’s definitely some truth to that. I know that I’m happier […]