Sometimes Monday | 1.15.2024
Brings answers! Last week, a few of you asked me questions and I have answers! Carolyn asked these burning questions: "That photo, what a treat!!! With your phone? Or serious camera?" I took that photo with my phone, which I think is a very serious camera! (Why?...
Welcome to My Word | 1.2.23
Hello 2023 and Hello Authenticity! It has been a bit of a journey to get here, but the time for dancing around the elephant in the room is done. I am going to bring some baggage with me though, which I am hoping will make this journey a bit easier...yay for all I...
An Unraveled Review | 12.28.22
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher...
Full, Filling, Empty | December 2022
Filling what’s empty and emptying what’s full. ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky I have spent a year contemplating full and it has been a wise use of my time! I used Mary Oliver's Summer Day as my starting point, and particularly these lines: Tell me, what else...
A Final pre-Holiday RIFF | 12.23.22
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. ― Laura Ingalls Wilder Today, I hope to do a bit of what Halfpint so nobly encourages us to do......
Unraveled Wednesday | 12.21.22
After the longest night, tomorrow we sing up the dawn. There is a rejoicing that, even in the darkest time, the sun is not vanquished. As of tomorrow, the days begin to get longer as the light of day grows. While the gentle winter sun slowly opens its eyes, let us all...
Sometimes Monday | 12.19.22
Usher's in crunch time... I don't know about any of you, but the Holiday Blues are definitely a thing... at least for me they are. My expectations have often been the trigger for those blues... as in my expectations are HIGH and reality never quite hits that level....