Recent Entries

• Snow Day & Social Media

  January 19, 2025

  It is another snow day here in the Midwest and the temps are plummeting. This morning, I snuggled with my cat, Peter Parker, and enjoyed my brew. It was very relaxing. I dozed, meditated, balanced and activated my chakras, and chilled. I will say it was quite nice. My slumber was also perfect las...

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• Reprieve

  January 17, 2025

  The snow is melting away today as the temp rises a bit higher. There are a few leftover piles of it, little white patches on the landscape, on roofs, in shaded areas. Tomorrow, all of it will be consumed by rain.   I'm sharing one of my poems today and one many people in my…

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• Co-Existing.

  January 14, 2025

  The temp was 17 degrees when I got up this morning. Now, it is a balmy 38 degrees here in the Midwest. The sun has been shining all day and melting some snow we've had. I am happy to see the sunshine as it always lifts my mood. We had an ice storm across much…

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• Writing & Radical Change

  January 12, 2025

  I am unsure of why I haven't been able to keep writing here. Perhaps, I needed to go through some other processes to return. For today, for right now, I am present.   I remember how I used to write nearly every day in the former Open Diary before it closed down. I had friends…

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• Loss and Gain

  October 24, 2021

  I'm writing again after a year and 7 months. Where does the time go? I've been through a lot, some very extreme situations, but I believe I've been on the mend since August, at least physically. My emotional healing is a different story. but I'm working on that too.   My mentality has suffer...

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• Stronger

  March 1, 2020

  I am feeling much stronger now, healing in every way physically, mentally, emotionally. I still have a few more procedures but I believe all will go well and I’ll keep feeling more energetic and sane as time goes by. I am so glad it’s March! It’s been such a “gray” winter where I am (Kentucky).&h...

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• What An Experience!!

  February 13, 2020

  I haven't been here since October. So much has happened I'm not sure I can report all of it. I had intense stress over the holidays/Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was in charge of dinners for a high number of family members. I was so stressed on Thanksgiving I couldn't eat much. Christmas was bett...

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• My Apologies For Disappearing

  October 26, 2019

  I'm sure it happens, I simply did not subscribe to OD and my 30 days ran out. Before that happened, I took some time to myself to reflect as all of us do. I've not been going through the greatest of times. I've struggled with relationship issues and also medical issues. These two themes have…

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• My Passions…

  September 4, 2019

  are... *Photography *Graphic Design (especially book design, magazine pages, ads) *Web Design *Art (all varieties) *Music *Reading (anything and everything) *Writing (Poetry, Non-Fiction, some Fiction, Quotes) *Crafting/Crochet *Making my own natural meds, beauty, household  products *Theater/Fil...

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