Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Well, that’s not really true, the blank mind* part. Rather there is so much tumbling around in my brain that I think it’s created a bottle neck. I wish I could figure out a way out of that. Not that I can’t just sit down and yammer on – obviously I can. But when it [...]

is the “recommended books” feature on iGoogle. I could just keep clicking, reading summaries, clicking, reading until… well, one day I did just that and eventually it said “no more recommended books” or something like that. Felt like I’d reached the end of the internet. Luckily, it was just taking a breath before again filling [...]

Because it seems we sure didn’t used to. Reading lately about the underground railroad (great stuff!) and other things dealing with the antebellum South, and I got to wondering…  when enslaved persons ran away, how did people recognize them? For instance: This says, in part- $150 REWARD Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of [...]

I had a whole day almost to myself today. What a change! And what a necessity. Of the so many things I have to do, I actually did very few of them. Or, rather, halves of everything. Half the laundry done (washed and folded, but not put away), half the kitchen cleaned (floors, counters, dishes [...]

I was doing so well there for a bit, too. Watching both the first season and the… fifth? whatever the last season was, together, figuring I could meet the story in the middle and somehow figure out what was going on. Kinda weird seeing characters as ghosts or something first, then going back and finding [...]

I saw a bloodhound the other day. Dang, are those things big. I guess I’d never seen one in person before, though I could have sworn I had. Droopy eyed,  loose-limbed pleasant and fairly harmless looking creatures, in my imagination (or possibly from cartoons or book descriptions). And some may indeed fit that description. Not [...]

It looks dreadful. Little Orphan Annie after a rainstorm. All this talk lately about black women’s hair and nappy vs natural and so on (which talk both BA and Sylvia have dealt with wonderfully) finally gave me the impetus to try to do something, anything, with mine. I had to go out almost immediately I [...]

If she makes it to the top again, or even close, it’ll likely be on the wings of those who remember before and who love her, fans and whoever else. Because, it seemed to me, listening to her this morning on Good Morning America, that the voice… well. It’s no longer a Voice. I guess [...]

Family has descended on me (in my rather small space) so I doubt I’ll get much quality writing time in anytime soon. So, in order to have something posted daily it’ll more likely be blather than not. I’m trying not to write *too* many things in my head because once I do that they don’t [...]