Category Archives: Past Blogs

This all started with a dream. I had a dream, a dream that was so unsettling, I needed to move it from my head to the page to clear it from my thoughts. The dream isn’t important, really. So many shocking events have been in the news, I believe my subconscious created a disturbing dreamContinue reading “recent events”

I bristle when I hear “Get a Life” am I to believe that because I don’t have children grandchildren a husband or lover because I don’t frequent bars, drinking myself stupid because I’m not on dating apps because I shun the idea of ‘putting myself out there’ that I somehow don’t have a life? I’veContinue reading “Get A Life”

I haven’t posted anything for quite some time and I have no excuses, not that I feel I need to be excused. I do have reasons and it’s finally a good time to put all the thoughts and experiences I’ve had over the last several months into written form. They have been swirling around inContinue reading “It’s Been a Minute….”

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, 1988 It occurs to me that, like so many things, something can be considered offensive or unpleasant if you choose to see it that way. SomeContinue reading “Thoughts on White Privilege”

Perspective/Cognitive Emotional/Physical Compassion/Action perspective/cognitive – knowing how the other person feels and what they might be thinking; perspective-taking; keeping yourself at a distance emotional/physical – feeling physically along with the other person as though their emotions were contagious; looking inwards to identify a similar experience which evoked similar emotions compassion/action – not only understanding aContinue reading “Empathy”

The friendly cow, all red and white I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. Robert Louis Stevenson

So many people have issues with their bodies. I, of course, am certainly no exception. I know that my body is tall, strong, healthy, capable and worthy of much love and appreciation. However….. I became aware of certain differences in the 6th grade. Up until that point, I had been unaware of any problem. IContinue reading “Body”

Since I wrote the first piece, I’ve feel a great burden lifted. I never knew that simply expressing the grief I’ve felt all of my life would be the one thing that would help relieve that pain. I’ve worked so hard to keep those feelings buried, to carry on with life with a positive, optimisticContinue reading “Sorrow (2)”

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s taken me a long time to get to this point. I’m happy I’m finally here. I was almost bald for the first two years of my life. Just a fuzzy headed little happy blob. But, when my hair started to grow, it grew and grew andContinue reading “Hair”

“Kintsugi is a way of learning to see individual beauty and to appreciate the value of experience and honesty.” K. Stark Kintsugi is a Japanese word meaning golden joinery or golden repair. It is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum. Instead of hidingContinue reading “KINTSUGI”