Beautiful World

I hesitate to write this post--especially after the things I said less than a month ago in this post. However, it's important to me t...

I bowed to my Inner Selfish yesterday. Thanksgiving brings a host of mixed feelings for me. I have good childhood memories of Thanksgivi...

I thank Thee, dear Lord, for the blue of the skies, For the green of the woods and fields, For the river that ripples and ...

The huge bout of PTSD symptoms has gone. As is normal, I feel rather drained and exhausted emotionally. Therapist believes that one of the r...

I know two women who were friends for nearly 25 years. They lived near each other and spent a great deal of time together for the first eigh...

Last Saturday I attended the funeral of a friend. This required me to return to the place where I grew up and to meet with people of my chil...

I went out of town for a few days. I wrote a post while I was gone--away from online access, for the most part--little telephone access--but...

I am running once again. Real running. My amazing fall down a steep, rocky hill, which managed to bloody nearly every part of my body and ...

This isn't really a big deal because crabapples are everywhere and the jelly is easy to make, but it also provides me with quiet time to...

Last night a friend chatted with me. This is how it went: Friend: So...depressed much? me: A little, yes. Friend: I would never have gue...

On yesterday's long drive home, I pulled off the freeway to use the facilities at one of the many truck stops lining I-80's stretch ...

Depression continues strongly. I'm now in the place where I no longer care about anything for a moment, then I wallow in self-pity--wish...

At the risk of perpetuating the rumor that my blog is whiny, I need to write this post. I am experiencing overwhelming, immobilising depre...

School starts (for me) tomorrow. No. I have not yet written my syllabus. In all honesty, I'm still tweaking the projects my students w...

For a few months I have been feeling disconnected from Darrin. When I berate myself for allowing this to happen, I remember that I've be...

I remember once telling a young friend how much I value my alone time--and then I felt like a fraud because I was immediately visited by a ...

I used to believe that in each of my relationships there would come a time when I would need to "let go." This has may connotation...

I have been remiss in my birthday tributes to important people in my life--partly because I've been missing birthdays completely. Howev...