I’ll always remember the year I turned 40 as the year I lost two jobs in six months. In July the new “strategists” hired in my area at work decided that my skills weren’t needed …
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Scared or Lazy?
I’ve been thinking about writing, but not actually writing, and so I’ve asked myself the question, “am I afraid to write?” I answered myself with, “maybe I am, or maybe I’m just lazy.”I think both …
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Not Shopping
Today is that day, the day they call Black Friday. It’s supposed to be the busiest shopping day of the year, the day that businesses hope will put their accounts in the black. For the …
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Winter Blues
I’ve been feeling this low-grade depression overtaking me. I blame the shortening days, and the terrible state of the world. Probably the world wouldn’t seem quite so terrible to me if I didn’t have this …
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What now?
I’m supposed to write, but I haven’t felt like it. I have a puppy and she makes me tired. I’ve been working at a computer all day long so I don’t want to touch one …
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Meet Sadie!
This is my puppy, Sadie. We found her at the Owen County Humane Society. She was in a fenced-in area with her brothers and sisters, all of whom seemed to knock her around and step …
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Make my mark?
I used to think that I was destined for greatness and fame. Part of me still does but then I think “what am I going to be great at?”, “What will I be famous for?” …
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About Duke
This is a story I wrote about my husband’s beloved Pitbull, Duke earlier this year. I was going to enter it in the Bloom Magazine fiction contest but I didn’t. I have a few pictures …
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Follow-up and Such
My last post entitled Strategy Time was about improving myself. I was going to blog regularly, work in my art journal, and eat better by preparing meals ahead of time. I also mentioned going to …
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Strategy Time
Yes it’s that time again. You know when you have that feeling that you’re going to improve things in your life, that you’re going to do the things you’ve been meaning to do, that you …