Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Both in terms of the site being up (in case anyone but me noticed it was down for a couple of days), and in terms of being here instead of elsewhere. I have, as I mentioned before, been Tumbling along. I like it and I don’t like it, and I have thoughts as to why. [...]

A while ago I began to notice that many of the people I liked to read were disappearing from their blogs. This, of course, is understandable–after all, I regularly disappear from mine. Some I tracked to Facebook, others to Twitter, and this last batch I tracked to Tumblr. It is, it seems, too much to [...]

On which to, no doubt, not write. But still. The new one is for me to write down my natterings, reflections, thoughts about Blackness and so on — and I am going to try to make this blog, Serenity etc, more of a professional space. Where I don’t just drabble on and on about unconnected [...]

Just tonight I am finding this out. Serenity was/has been my name on IRC chat since 1996 so to me the use of it here made sense.  Now, though… not so much. Well, not that it doesn’t still make sense to me, but now it is also a little embarrassing. When people started talking about [...]

A while back I installed a plugin that automatically puts my posts on Facebook (and Twitter, etc, if I wish.) I like it, and it was fun for a while — but I realize it has really been hampering me and my blogging. I don’t want every little thing I write on here also posted [...]

Red. That is the short answer I give whenever someone asks that question. But if you look through my home or my wardrobe there is hardly anything red to see. Oh, maybe a splash here, and you can catch a glimpse there, but nothing to indicate that, of all the colors, red is the one [...]

I know, it seems just a tad narcissistic to interview myself, doesn’t it? Not to mention the asking myself questions and then answering myself aspect. I had a few reasons I wanted to do this, though, besides a fascination with my own navel. I will see if I can adequately explain them. I think first [...]

I’m going to try something. It’s odd, I think. It may even be just a tad narcissistic, but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m going to interview myself over the next year, and ask a question a day. Oh, why, why, why would you want to do such a thing, Nanette? (See, there I [...]

Although, lately, I’ve been mostly leaving stuff alone and just puttering around here, on this site. I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. A good thing at the moment, I think – but a bad thing in the long run if it means that I’ve just lost interest in [...]

I posted on Human Beams today… nothing special or particularly notable (even if I am making a note of it), but as it’s the first time I’ve done so since January! I thought I would mark the occasion. Last year or so, when HB was still limping along, I came across a few friends from [...]