I often talk, dear reader, about my chronic pain and it's something I'm coming to grips with. But there's something that I don't often talk about, though I do mention it from time to time, and that's the deterioration of my cognitive mind. I was an English major less than a decade ago and I… Continue reading The cruelest cut… (a ramble)

So I talked about some of the weird things that have been going on around here, and it just gets weirder, dear reader. Like... I honestly do not believe in ghosts, nor do I honestly believe that there's someone living in my crawlspace -- but if it turns out that we are being haunted or… Continue reading The mystery of the dirty dishes

I was thinking the other day about creativity. As some of y'all know, I use to be a writer. Had a few things published a long time ago, not a lot but a story here, a poem there. I've never been ambitious enough to submit a lot, so not a lot got published. That's how… Continue reading Sunday musings

View from my computer I'm sitting here looking at my little Christmas tree and I wonder, dear reader, when was the last time I truly felt the "holiday spirit"? I'm not depressed, so don't fret about that. But I do have to say that it's been a very long time since I got into the… Continue reading Holiday thoughts

lolcats... too tired to look up the origin. Imposed idleness is boring, dear reader. I still, after all of these years have not gotten used to it. I say, to myself and others, that I am lazy by nature, but that just means that if there is a way to do something efficiently and with… Continue reading Another day another…

When Doug and I moved into this house, we had a few things done to make life easier for us. We didn't go hog wild, but we made a few changes. One of the things we did was replace all of the outdated appliances in the kitchen. Eventually, we'll change a few more things, but… Continue reading A little weirdness

Over the past couple of days there's been some... oddness in my house. Not enough to, like, call the cops over or anything but enough to make my hypervigilance go pinging. So, since we've moved in there have been some strange things going on -- One example is the cameras we have about the house… Continue reading Some weirdness…

So, every year around this time, my sinuses like to go haywire and my body reacts by attacking itself, and I get sick. Like, really sick. Though come to think of it, it's been a long time since I've gotten really sick. I guess that having a happy, stable home life does play a part… Continue reading Being ill in the time of the plague