Category Archives: Life

Priorities

Posted on October 21, 2017 by

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting here at my desk trying to motivate myself to work on a story that just doesn’t want to come together. It’s a holiday story so if I want to publish it this year I … Continue reading →

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I Should Be Happier

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

I’m sitting here in my own house with pup snoring somewhere down the hallway and my day is completely my own. I can write, I can sit out on the porch and read a book. I’m in good (enough) health.  … Continue reading →

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I Know You Mean Well, But…

Posted on June 2, 2017 by

So I mentioned a little bit ago that I have a friend who’s dealing with brain tumors.  They’ve set up a FB page to keep everyone posted about what’s going on so I’m getting to see not just updates by … Continue reading →

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You Could, But Have You?

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

That’s the much more polite version of what I found myself wanting to say more than once this weekend.  I was visiting a good friend and her spouse and the spouse–who was once incredibly successful but basically hasn’t done much … Continue reading →

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That Gray Area Between Death and Life

Posted on May 3, 2017 by

I’d written about 300 words of a post about ethics and how like people gravitate to like people and then realized I just didn’t want to go there today.  But…Since I’m here… A very good friend of mine just found … Continue reading →

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A New Year, Time to Write

Posted on January 1, 2017 by

When I was growing up I wrote a lot of bad poetry.  It was my way of dealing with all the drama of home, including a terminally ill father.  After he died I wrote even more.  It’s not publishable, I … Continue reading →

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On Compliance…

Posted on December 23, 2016 by

Gee, I’m blogging a lot this month. Must be because I have a novel I need to write… Recent events have me thinking back to this fundamental truth that I’ve known for a long while: No one person (at least … Continue reading →

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A Reminder About Depression

Posted on December 19, 2016 by

It’s been a looong time since I’ve mentioned depression here on the blog.  But on Twitter today one of the folks I followed shared a link to a blog post I thought was worth sharing by someone who is struggling … Continue reading →

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Clawing My Way Forward One Day At a Time

Posted on December 16, 2016 by

I should be writing, but I’m not.  So I figured it was a good time to stop and reassess and maybe tell a story that might give someone somewhere a glimmer of hope… (Maybe.  Or be that last nail in … Continue reading →

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A Matter of Perspective

Posted on December 6, 2016 by

As I’ve mentioned before, my dad was terminally ill most of his adult life.  He didn’t have his kidneys so had to dialyze three times a week for over twenty years.  If you had asked him what he wanted most … Continue reading →

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