Book Reviews

I have been reading during my hibernation this winter. This is the first chance I've had to hunker down and lose myself in new worlds since I'm up at the pre-crack of dawn (2-4am) every blessed day. I could be up doing laundry or cleaning my bedroom, but as I have said before this is…

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Many Springs

"okee mamee?" she asks and places her tiny hand on my shoulder. My face is on the floor again staring sideways at the sea of brown blond gold carpet listening to the neverending sound of the furnace vibrating through the galvanized vents. "Woof," she barks while jumping to emphasize the sound, proud that she can…

Winter Sunshine

The clouds parted I saw rather than felt the sun as the wind blew camouflage to block the light "Ah, winter," I sighed, "when will it end? Each year the season picks its victims and we shut down lacking vitamin D cursing the bitter cold the ache the stiff joints that creak louder each year.…

Hibernation

I hunkered down under the comforter trying to keep my feet warm the cold finally settled in my bones I only get up to be with Girlie and the Sentinel and visit doctors My health worsened with the weather all I can do is read and read in between fitful sleep

She walked

She claimed them as part of her family the short the tall the thick the small She wondered where she would be without them all spinning in confusion drowning in tears starving for empathy craving strength listening to dreams She found life fuller for them lesser in want of them a balance was needed. She…

The Weekend

I spent the weekend resting if you can call it that tossing and turning never getting comfortable but not exerting myself. These 2am mornings are something else. I tried to stay up late (9:30pm) and for that I was gifted with a 2am wake up dream. Sigh, I'm really very tired of this. When it…

That House (the-sandbox-writing-challenge-22)

https://promptlings.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/the-sandbox-writing-challenge-22-setting-free-the-captive-parts/ This week’s challenge gets you TWO questions for the price of one, but they are connected. Are you ready? Here goes… (The image of a house is on the page linked above) What part of YOU is 
locked inside this house?
` What can you do to free 
that part of yourself? That House My…

Response to Plato (two posts for the price of one)

http://www.platosgroove.com/2016/01/wordpress-help-for-those-as-painfully-ignorant-as-i/#comment-5594 My response: Dear man, “my redneck roots would leave me hammer in hand with a broken computer in pieces before me” I would never call you a redneck, you merely went primal when your device of expression refused to be cooperatively expressive, resulting in a primal urge to beat the crap out of it.…

TMI Feminine Products

So, I'm trying to remain calm instead of the primal being I have become... This is your last chance to stop reading before I launch off on a tangent about my feminine issues. Remember you have been warned. ..while I am having hormone adjustments (the life force is draining out of me as we speak)…