The other day, Sahar asked me if Mercury was in retrograde. I should have known. I mean, the fact that she even asked the question should have been a giant red flag. It wasn’t until yesterday that I looked it up and found that yes, indeed, Mercury is in the microwave again. I hav … | Continue reading
I went into my weekend with the bar on the floor. My expectations were dismal, despite a forecast of decent weather and the fact that St Patrick’s Day this year fell on a Monday, which meant a whole weekend of festivities. I had been sick last week, so one of my shifts were moved … | Continue reading
A long time ago, I wrote about The Us-iversary. You should go read that blog if you don’t know what I’m talking about. It’s okay, I will wait. Are you back now? Cool. So, as you can probably tell now that you know what I will be writing about, I’m pretty depressed today. It start … | Continue reading
I haven’t really been around because I worked a lot over the last week or so and when I was not working I was in Cleveland. I don’t have much to say about my trip, aside from the fact that we went to Costco which was amazing. Other than that, we just kind of hunkered … Continue r … | Continue reading
As I wrote in a previous entry, I am limiting myself when it comes to soapboxing posts. If I had the bandwidth, I would be getting up here every day screaming about some such nonsense, be it the abolishment of DEL, the deportation of migrants, or how the Elephant Tusk man now has … | Continue reading
I can’t even tell you how long I had Norovirus. I just know that I had it, and now it’s the middle of February, and I have no idea how I got here. Today, I feel almost human. I am a little tired, and I am still trying to get food into me bit by … Continue reading Bedridden | Continue reading
I guess I have to look at things from a different perspective. That is a piece of advice given to me by a tarot card reader I saw in Salem, and it is something that I have remembered over these past 3 years since it was spoken to me. Instead of looking at things as … Continue rea … | Continue reading
This morning, I woke up after a particularly disappointing day. I am pretty sure my car will not be with me much longer, and I am very concerned, given my currently abysmal financial status. However, I have some things in motion, so maybe everything will work out in the end. At l … | Continue reading
I feel that over the coming years, I will be getting angry quite a bit. I’ll be climbing atop of my soapbox and screaming, then stepping down and crawling into my bed to cry tears of frustration and sorrow. I’m not currently angry now (well, no more than usual,) but I am going to … | Continue reading
So there’s a part of me that wants to blog about the series finale of America, which begins today, but there’s a larger part of me that wants to give absolutely no coverage to the incoming administration. So today we’re going to sideswipe it by talking about propaganda. I may hav … | Continue reading
For several months I have been using my phone to write. I haven’t sat down at a keyboard and typed anything out in so long, I wasn’t sure I would remember how. I am not looking up as I write this and I expect a thousand mistakes. I looked up. Six typos. I guess not … Continue rea … | Continue reading
Dear Mom,I have to confess something. Last night, I did quite well at an open mic, even though you would not have appreciated the poem that I wrote very much. Ypu would have been extremely proud of my performance, perhaps not my words, however. Or, I could be wrong. You were, aft … | Continue reading
Usually, this is the time in which I would do some sort of recap or roundup of the year. Obviously, I’m not trying to relive anything that happened in 2024, so you’re just getting a play by play of the last week. Christmas began on the 24th when I left work. I headed home and … C … | Continue reading
We’ve all heard the 12 Days of Christmas song. The 12 Days of Christmas begin on the Winter Solstice, which is the 21st of December. It ends on January 1st, New Years Day. Except before it was the 12 days of Christmas, it was the 12 days of Yule. As I am no longer Christian, … Co … | Continue reading
Raise your hand if you have ever had a doctor dismiss your concerns for any reason at all? Okay, now that everyone in the whole wode world has raised their hand, let me tell you about how today I get to put my hand…down. In my blog 15 Horses, I discussed how I am considering … Co … | Continue reading
For the past couple of days, my father and I have been decorating the house for the holiday season. For the first year in my entire life, there will be no Christmas tree. I have come to terms with that, as it seems small in comparison to the other things that I have had to … Cont … | Continue reading
I’ve always been a fairly independent person. I do what needs to be done for myself and others, I rarely have complaints, and I am a good trooper in most situations. I have always said I am not the sort of woman who NEEDS a man, but rather the kind who WANTS one, for the … Contin … | Continue reading
I saw a post recently by a person from a younger generation asking if parents in the 80s and 90s really let their kids just roam around freely. Yeah, dude. We drank from the hose, too. I remember being a child, growing up in the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, on Tonawanda St, … | Continue reading
They tell you not to believe everything you read on the internet, especially when it comes to medicine. I have always followed this general rule, especially since the advent of WebMD. Sometimes though, you see something that seems interesting and you follow it down a rabbit hole … | Continue reading
Were I able to write a blog today, it would likely be full of profanities and anger, and I just cannot. I physically, emotionally, and mentally cannot. So, instead, I’m just going to drop a few links for the ladies. Happy Tuesday, or whatever… Women’s health:Plannedparenthood.com … | Continue reading
Did you vote yet? Every 4 years, I pull out my soapbox and talk to you about things like the Electoral College being the stupidest thing to ever exist or how important it is to vote. These points still remain true, but I won’t go off on a rant about either today. I won’t go … Con … | Continue reading
The other day, I had a realization in the middle of a Walmart. I went there to pick out a comforter for my bedroom, as well as a set of curtains. First, I went over to purchase a curtain rod and picked up one that I thought would work in any room. In the moment, … Continue readin … | Continue reading
Currently, and for the next week, I am living out of the front room of my apartment. That is where the old twin mattress is lying on the floor, serving as both bed and sofa. That is where the space heater is, and the television. Pretty much everything else is in a box. 90% of … C … | Continue reading
On my Twitter profile, there has been a line in my bio for many years reading “Forever Following Detours.” The reason for this is that several years ago I saw a follow detour sign on the highway as I was trying to make an important life decision. The epiphany I had when I saw tha … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, I loved it September. September meant it was time for school to start, which most kids did not look forward to but with which I held great anticipation. I didn’t like school mind you, but I did like seeing my friends again and also, school supply shopping was th … | Continue reading
Every time I cry, all I can think of is this face: The day I took this picture, we were at Midway Park. I was very excited to go that day, but as I recall everything kept going wrong. It helped nothing at all that I was off my mood stabilizer at the time, and … Continue reading M … | Continue reading
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”-Oscar Wilde I thought that when I lost my mother, I became an expert on grief. In many ways I did, as I researched all the ways the human body responds to it, deals with it, and can heal from it. Then my husband died, … Con … | Continue reading
My last blog was about the beginning of my trip, so this will be about the end of it. That Saturday morning I enjoyed my sunrise with my coffee, and then one by one my friends crawled out of their beds. We sat around having a lazy morning for a little while, and then got … Contin … | Continue reading
On Thursday afternoon, some of my best female friends scooped me up and took me away to a lake house on Ontario. The goal of the weekend was to be stress-free. When I first got picked up, I was full of stress, as I was intensely worried about Mark’s prognosis since the last time … | Continue reading
It looks like my blogs are going to be transitioning into me talking about dealing with Mark’s situation for the time being. I mean, when I think about it, aside from my self-care Sundays that’s all I have going on in my life. Sure, there is work, which I have been away from for … | Continue reading
Where would I even begin? As I stated in my last post, my husband contracted bacterial pneumonia. The long and the short of it is that he got Legionnaire’s disease, which shut down his kidneys, because his liver was already fighting for its life, due to genetics and a few too man … | Continue reading
Hello, folks.I am just dropping a little message here in my blog to let you know that I will be taking some time off. I cannot guarantee any blog or Patreon updates this week, or, at this point, next week, either. Without going into too much detail, my husband Mark has come down … | Continue reading
I was just minding my business the other day, scrolling through the former bird app, when somehow I saw a post from JKR demonizing a woman in the Olympics. I kept scrolling, wondering only why this crazy lady was still showing up in my feed. A few days later, I saw a post on the … | Continue reading
As a child, I despised the Summer Olympics. I recall not being able to watch my soaps because they were preempted by sports, something I gave absolutely no care about. As an adult, I never watched them because I still do not care for “the sports.” Sometimes, I will watch the open … | Continue reading
As you could probably tell from my past couple of blogs, I have been at my breaking point both emotionally and physically over the recent weeks. I decided the best way for me to take a much needed break was to skip town and hole up in my best friend’s spare bedroom in Cleveland. … | Continue reading
I have no desire to blog about the state of affairs of America right now. I wanted to get on my soapbox many times over the past few days, but I have refrained because I am saving myself for the polls in November. I have no desire to blog about the state of my health … Continue r … | Continue reading
Today is one of those days where I sit in limbo, wondering what I will do, wondering what will happen next. To say that I have had a period of stress in my life currently is a little bit of an understatement. Since the beginning of July, my car has had two seperate problems, and … | Continue reading
Once a month, I write a newsletter for my Patreon which sums up what I have been working on, writer-wise, throughout the month. When I wrote my newsletter last week, I realized there was a lot that I wanted to share with everyone, not just my paid subscribers. (Although, of cours … | Continue reading
So Louisiana it is trying to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, in direct violation of the First Amendment. Since more than half of the people I know identify as Christians, most do not seem to have any problem with this. I tell you what though, the minute … | Continue reading
Last night I was scrolling through Facebook and I did the thing I always tell myself not to do: I read the comments. The article was simply stating that there would be no mail delivery today due to Juneteenth. Obviously, it was simply meant to be a reminder since today is a feder … | Continue reading
Growing up Catholic, saints were a part of everyday life. Most of us born Catholics are named after them, in fact. We are taught to pray to them and ask them to intercede on behalf of their specialties. For example, a very common Catholic saying is “St. Anthony, St. Anthony, plea … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, I wrote a blog about killing your darlings. I talked about how I wrote most of a book and then had to kill not only the characters but the whole plot. At the time I wrote this, I had no idea what would come out of my murder of words. That … Continue reading Slau … | Continue reading
I’m not sure how I managed to let an entire week go by without updating my blog. I don’t even remember all I was doing, but I guess I was busy. Anyway… I woke up this morning and scrolled through my Facebook, and one of the first posts I saw was from an old friend … Continue read … | Continue reading
Since I have been living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder for most of my life, I’m accustomed to the occasional panic attack. In fact, I take three pills a day in hopes to avoid them completely, but it does not always work. Typically, my panic attacks involve shortness of breath … | Continue reading
Last night, my Aunt Mary accompanied me to an exhibition for a spoken word artist whom I enjoy. We got there just in time to see him perform a few poems and explain the art that adorned the room. Most of it was focused on the home and church in which he grew up. This … Continue r … | Continue reading
One of my absolute bucket list items is to see the Aurora Borealis. I live in the northwest corner of New York, right near Niagara Falls, Canada. Now, if it were 1999, I could simply pay $1.50 and show my ID to cross over into Canada. In fact, sometimes they didn’t even ask for a … | Continue reading
I learned a lesson about myself today, and it is that I am much better at keeping my cool in a situation than I used to be. I believe I have learned through both maturity and therapy how to manage my emotions properly. This was put to the test today, as a gentleman at work … Cont … | Continue reading
The above is a post from a grief support group that I follow on Facebook. The topic got me thinking, which brings me here to the blog. It occurred to me literally yesterday that I will not be able to pick flowers from my mother’s garden this year. My father no longer lives in the … | Continue reading