“A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven”
When I was growing up the Roman Catholic church was in the midst of some major changes due to The Second Sacred Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Lace veils were vanishing from the heads of women...
View ArticleMy Metamorphosis…
I was laying on my bedroom floor playing with my kitten this evening. I just love her energy and curiosity, her wild abandon and playful nature. She is just a kitten with so much yet to learn about...
View ArticleHow Long Can I Stand Outside The Fire?
When the foundation of my world suddenly crumbled beneath me, I stuffed my heart into a protective bubble, vowing to never again let it feel. It felt like it had been fed through a meat grinder, and...
View ArticleWhen I’m Deep Inside My Shell
~*~ Your circumstances don’t DEFINE you, but REFINE you..turning the ashes of your past into the diamonds of your future. ~ The Single Woman ~*~ More than one friend has been a bit concerned about the...
View ArticleYet Another Lesson From My Cat
I’ve noticed my beautiful baby has a tendency to sleep…a lot. If reincarnation was a reality, I’d want to come back as a pampered house cat. Mine is pretty darn pampered. Lately my baby has been...
View ArticleThe Landscape Of 2013
When I first told my mom I was getting a divorce, back in February 2010, she looked at me and said, “you think the world is ending now, but trust me, a year from now the landscape of your life is going...
View ArticleA Reason, A Season, Or A Lifetime
I saw this on Facebook being passed around, too good not to share People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each...
View ArticleBeing Vulnerable
As I am writing my non-fiction book about my “getting religion”, the fall from what I knew to be the intended path, the living in the swamps and cesspools of sin, to divorce and finding my way home...
View ArticleWhy YOU Could, And SHOULD Try This
I’ve become a bit of a direct sales junkie the past few years. All told I have signed up to be a representative/consultant with 7 different ones. Working for myself, from my house, is a dream. I...
View ArticleI’m Here!
I know, I haven’t posted in a LONG time, like a month now. Life was getting in the way and I had to focus on other things. So, this may be a long update. Mom Update Mom is still with us, and those who...
View ArticleOne Last Snow Before We Go
If you follow my blog at all you know that while I think snow is pretty I am NO fan of cold weather. As a child I couldn’t wait for a good snowfall but the older I get the more the cold and snow are...
View ArticleAnd Like That She Was Gone
It has been a week and a day now since life as I know it changed dramatically. It has taken me this long to decide if I was even going to share the events, and how much I’d be willing to let others see...
View ArticleGetting Through The First Of The Firsts
As nature was bursting forth with new beauty and adventure, mom left us for her new adventure in Heaven. We too were busting into a new adventure in our new apartments. And normal would be entirely new...
View ArticleCoffee Musings On Sunday Afternoon
I sit down a lot of days intending to write a post and while I have a lot on my mind, lately I struggle to put it into words. I’m going to just randomly go with it today and see where it takes me. I’m...
View ArticleWhat Does Grief Look Like ~ 24 Weeks Out
I’ve had 2 therapy sessions so far for grief counseling and I’m so thankful for them. The first week I pretty much did a verbal vomit all over the room. Jumped all over subject to subject as it all...
View ArticleBack On Plan & Living My Dream
My dream? Well it goes with the saying so many use when someone asks, “how are you?” and they say, “living the dream”. See, I am not living the dream, someone else’s version of a dream. I am living MY...
View ArticleThe Winds Of Change
In a week I will be sleeping here for the last time, and my belongings all loaded up in a truck for moving to my new home with my daughter and son-in-law. I am excited and dreading it all at once. The...
View ArticleLocks Of Gold & Poop Scooping
Much to the surprise of the young lady doing my hair, and me, the red/burgundy lifted easily and she was able to bleach me back to blond. I’m thrilled! While I do indeed believe it does age us once we...
View ArticleFinding A Facebook Alternative
Lately I’m just done with the constant flagging of posts on Facebook by what I call fake fact checkers. Often times, because one small, tiny detail of a conservative post is off (his shirt was blue...
View ArticleMourning The Loss Of Normal
I’m struggling. I miss what used to be, 5 or 6 months ago, before anyone had ever really heard of Covid-19. Before hand sanitizer and face masks were in everyone’s purses or cars. Back when social...
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