It’s a wonderful thing when the idea to adapt something to your own ends works out! For quite some time I have wanted to crochet a long, lacy jacket, I even had the pattern picked out. I just couldn’t bring…
Category: Sadness – Depression
I do so love being able to open the fridge door to grab a container of something I’ve made. It’s especially helpful to experience that feeling when the awful dark clouds start descending, knowing I can do something good and…
Time has a way of moving on even if we cannot, or perhaps don’t want to, keep up. These past few months, not to mention the last ten years, but for now I’m focusing on the past few months, have…
One of the most impressive aspects of crochet is the way it can be used to focus the mind on a singular task, and thus, to push aside those all too constant unwanted thoughts. Sometimes what’s needed is a complicated,…
The effort it takes to do some of those things you know you should, but just don’t have the where-with-all to do at any given moment, deserves recognition and reward, at least in my world it does! Dentistry is probably…
and don’t come again another day! Since that visit to the dentist back in June I’ve had a near continuous migraine, only the level of it varies. My latest meds hide some of the pain behind a wall, which is…
“It’s no use screaming, there’s no one to hear you.” These words are still as true today as they were the day they were said to me by the person who abducted and assaulted me. It’s been 47 years and…
Release Date: 10 April 2019. A collection of short stories from the Other Side of Life. Pre-Release orders available now. “Constance … Little Connie “ A Guardian Angel tells of her experiences watching over her human charge from birth to…
Sometime in January I decided to make 2019 a year for me, to do things for me, without guilt or recriminations. Not outlandish, or extravagant stuff, more along the lines of self care and self nurture along with a bit…
Today is one of those days that began in an okay-ish way but determinedly kept slipping lower and lower on the scale of okay-ness. It’s afternoon now and I’ve closed the doors and windows, drawn the window shades. I was…