Category: Life
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What Gets Better with Age?
Well, at the grand old age of almost 50, I would have to say: “the ability to not give a fuck.” It starts small, and it isn’t usually a conscious decision. You don’t just wake up one morning and notice a new ad on your feed or whatever advertising a…
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Learning Self-Care
I’m a mom and a chauffeur and a PA and a groundskeeper and… Yeah, you know the whine. This whole “set and maintain boundaries” thing is hard to do. Setting a schedule is probably what I need to do, like: pick up and put away 5 things a day, vacuum…
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IWSG May 2024
May 1 question – How do you deal with distractions when you are writing? Do they derail you? Well, I suppose I should just show my cards n– SQUIRREL!!!!!!! … I get distracted from a cleaning task by a DIFFERENT CLEANING TASK!!! I’ve actually started downsizing my hobbies a bit…
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Being Supportive
My parents were not as supportive of my desire to write and publish as I would’ve liked them to be. It wasn’t until the last few years of my father’s life that he became a little more (vaguely) supportive of the notion. I don’t know what he was thinking during…
