“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

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  • What’s your Super Power?????…

    Scrolling through Facebook and there was a meme asking “What’s your super power?”  Hummm……what is my super power?  I can’t leap anything.  I can’t scale tall buildings.  I can’t blink and vaporize into a bottle (although I always wanted to). … Continue reading

  • Baby Surprises….

    Some days I get stumped and have a difficult time writing about anything, much less writing about what might or might not interest the reader!!  I reached out on my blog site and my friend, Angie, posed this question, “What… Continue reading

    Baby Surprises….
  • The Vulnerability of Winter

    This time of year makes me feel very vulnerable. The shorter days and longer nights make me vulnerable to more depression, sadness, internal unrest and fear. I have had this seasonal affective disorder since I was young and it isn’t… Continue reading

    The Vulnerability of Winter
  • World Mental Health Day

    Before this day comes to an end I would like to pay homage to my brain and to others who struggle with depression, anxiety, pain or anything else that causes depression, anxiety or pain… I think my brain is a… Continue reading

  • Quick Reminder

    I’ve lived long enough that the need to please others so that I’m accepted is gone. I have let go of the things that I thought people would want me to be and have focused on what I am becoming… Continue reading

  • Old and entitled….

    My family had a joke when I was little that when a person turned 80 that they immediately earned the “right” to say whatever they liked. This was our excuse for rude, blunt, hateful, and nasty things that angry “old… Continue reading

  • Scrub your butt!!! Seriously.

    Between wondering what has happened to manners and seeing more butt crack than I would ever like, I am amazed… Today is the beginning of my Fall Doctors appointments and testing. Every year about this time I begin the testing… Continue reading

  • Storming equals no sleep!

    Sometimes I think that my life can’t get weirder….then it does! Yesterday started like most days, you remember…the mundane!! Lol!! Get up, putz around, take a shower…. same old routine!! We got ready to go to the local small town… Continue reading

  • I’m afraid I wasn’t finished

    I guess that yesterday’s topic must have resonated a little louder with me than some other topics because I dreamed about it! That means I need to address the idea of “living” in a bit more depth! There are days,… Continue reading

  • Living life….or so we call it

    Today I was reminded of a poem that I read back in college. I still think it is timely. Down By The Salley Gardens       William Butler Yeats Down by the salley gardens    my love and I did… Continue reading