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October 12, 2025 My name is Jon.I live nowhereAnd everywhere.Today I sitOn the sidewalkLearning against the fence.Waiting for…I don’t know what.My name is Jane.I live nowhereAnd everywhere.Today I sitOn the sidewalkLearning against the fence.Waiting for…I don’t know what.Others are here,Folks like us.Nowhere to go.Waiting.Just waiting.We don’t know why.Here we are all the sameHopeless.You look atContinue reading “FAILURE”

October 12, 2025 I am that man, sitting on the bench.My hair white and thinning,No streaks of greyOr my natural brown.I am sad. I am that old lady, in the grocery aisle.My hair white and thinning,No streaks of greyOr my natural blonde.I am sad. My body moves slower now,Fingers jerk when holding a pen,Knees stiffenContinue reading “WHERE WISDOM LIES (a little free verse)”

September 13, 2025 I have a glider swing out back, facing my woods. It’s my place to ponder in the early morning, to think about who I am and how God and I relate to each other. This morning the white cosmos were hanging over the path, clearly right in front of me. The awesomenessContinue reading “A SHORT FUN LITTLE BLOG”

August 30, 2025 So, this is a followup to my last article. The one about how healing from emotional wounds can be similar to healing from physical ones. How, first we bleed profusely, but eventually that needs to stop or we will bleed to death. I went on to talk about scabs and about stoppingContinue reading “SO NOW WHAT’S NEXT?”

July 19, 2025 I did a lot of traveling in June, lots of days in the car by myself, thinking and questioning the meaning of everything!   I think it’s when I get some of my best inspirations. I started thinking about how to heal from emotional wounds. The kind that haunt us even years afterContinue reading “WE ARE A WOUNDED PEOPLE”

June 29, 2025 Sometimes I think I am terrible at this! Other bloggers have huge followings, and lots of comments.  I don’t.  The others actually generate on-line discussions!   And so, I judge myself! Some bloggers write multiple pages every few days, or at least once a week.  And they do little things on “reels”.Continue reading “A THING OR TWO (OR THREE) ABOUT MY “BLOGGING”!”

November 3, 2024 I’ve shared before that while I am definitely a person of faith, I  don’t share much beyond my friendship circles because I don’t seem to fit into the “traditional Christian box”, whatever that is.  Maybe I’m a little too private about this unless asked. I don’t know. But the topic of “words” has beenContinue reading “Cool Words”

September 24, 2024 If you’ve been following my recent blogs, you know I’ve taken a new path on my journey to “peace and happiness.” Whatever that looks like as I’m walking (running?) through my 80s.  I’ve shared how I like writing or speaking when I’ve come through a rough time, have worked it out, andContinue reading “MORE ABOUT DAILY HABITS”

September 5, 2024 I started this book a while ago. “You Are What You Love” by James K. A. Smith, subtitled “the spiritual power of habit.”   While I’m trying to find some order to my chaotic life, and since I do love and thrive on order, the title attracted me. It’s a great read, the firstContinue reading “THE POWER OF POSITIVE HABITS”

August 22, 2024 I have a bumper sticker on my car that says: Subvert The Dominant Paradigm.   And at my core, my faith is what defines me, but even that can be told in ways that are not me. I often call myself as an “out-of-the-box-Christian” because there’s so much that organized religion teaches thatContinue reading “Subvert The Dominant Paradigm”

August 5, 2024 I often suspect I am a terrible blogger! I don’t post dynamic articles every week. I want to…I have random thoughts about things to say, but they don’t seem worthy or monumental enough to warrant your time. Or maybe even my time. It takes time and effort to move random thoughts toContinue reading “ALL MY DUCKS IN A ROW”

April 12, 2024 I’ve been doing this thing on FB and Instagram lately, posting Art Journal Prompts, partly as an exercise for myself and partly to encourage others to try it. A bit of backstory is that a number of years ago my brother passed away and it was a pretty traumatic event for me. Continue reading “ART JOURNALING”

March 4, 2024 Lately I have been pre-occupied with this question: What Do I Really Want?  And then pre-occupied with needing to figure it out. That’s what everyone said.  For some unknown reason this quandary started as I was turning 80 last summer.  I don’t know if there’s something significant for everyone approaching that birthday.Continue reading ““AUTOMATIC”  STAGES OF LIFE”

February 16, 2024 Recently I watched a well-done movie on YouTube titled “An American Rhapsody” with Scarlett Johansson. It left me in near tears, because of the convincing acting and incredible story line. As do a number of movies. But this movie left me with a yearning and appreciation for the “old.”  Much of itContinue reading “ALL THINGS OLD – AND KEPT BEAUTIFUL”

July 15, 2023 I’m so stressed! I’ve done it again, fallen into the whirlwind of just ordinary living in this modern world.  I never know how it happens that I find myself thinking about all the clutter in my life, trying to solve the problems of those around me, and letting my to-do list getContinue reading “Values and Priorities. Again!”

June  1, 2023 I like to write, always have. Putting my thoughts to paper is not only therapeutic, but it’s just fun. I never want to get started though, it seems like a chore and I put it off, thinking I have nothing to say that anybody will care about .  But when I finallyContinue reading “How I Starting Blogging!”

Enjoy this trek down memory lane: August, 2018 Skittering, shuffling, scampering, out of breath I am. Books and papers and recipes, Photos and letters and souvenirs. Memorabilia. Spilling over. Cramped and crowded I am. This stuff of forty years, tucked away, stored, forgotten. I have become not the boss of my house. Declutter I must.Continue reading “CLUTTER”

May 1, 2023 In my last post I told about writing a book on my life when I was a young, senseless, lost, girl (50 years ago) and what it took to wake me up. What it took for me to change.   Most people think I wanted to write this book to chronicle a journeyContinue reading “Why I Wrote A Book”

April 5, 2023 So, I think I started this blog about 5 years ago. In all my enthusiasm for writing things for people to read, I thought I’d have something to post every week! Silly me! That didn’t happen! If you’ve only followed me a short while, you may want to go to the menu andContinue reading ”  Fresh Thoughts”

February 28th, 2023 This is what I said all the years of my growing up! I had several elderly aunts that I was inspired by.  They didn’t mean to be inspiring, they just were. Incredibly funny, they seemed to love life and live it fully. Getting together, these sisters told stories of growing up inContinue reading ““I can’t wait to be an old lady!””

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Another Example)”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”