March 28, 2025

Friday Just a quick journal entry. It’s been over a week since I wrote in this online journal. Last week was a bit of a production blur with both my Pink Dandelions newsletter and a Type M for Murder post AND a guest post coming out. What have I done since then? I addressed and… Continue reading March 28, 2025

March 20, 2025

Thursday Just finished working on this month’s newsletter essay about designating and designing creative sanctuaries in both our physical homes and metaphorically in our minds. It took me four hours to draft it. I have an essay coming out on a fellow Type M for Murder blogger’s personal author blog tomorrow. I spent time last… Continue reading March 20, 2025

March 14, 2025

Friday This week has been a challenge for several reasons, but mostly because I am experiencing some annoying and troubling pain in my wrists and finger joints. Feet, too, to a lesser extent. It’s really hard to enjoy life or concentrate on work when you hurt. It’s worse when you have no idea why this… Continue reading March 14, 2025

March 8, 2025

Saturday Image: Spring and Dandelions. After the winter comes rebirth. Pink dandelions, like their yellow counterparts, are a symbol of hope, dreams, and wishes. They remind us of the passage of time, the transitory nature of life. A dandelion holds within itself healing properties, strengthening and detoxifying. Let’s be like dandelions. Had a tech come… Continue reading March 8, 2025

March 5, 2025

The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Wednesday So I borrowed The Testaments by Margaret Atwood from the Naval Base Guam library a couple of weeks ago. I was so happy to find the library! Anyway, I started reading it but realized I’d forgotten details of The Handmaid’s Tale. I’d read it in the very early 1990s. Maybe actually 1990, and though… Continue reading March 5, 2025

February 28, 2025

Friday Guess where I’m typing this journal entry? That’s right. At my DESK. The movers arrived on Wednesday, and the first thing they brought in was my desk, the one I bought in San Diego. I lost no time in organizing it the best I could, removing things that had been placed into the drawers.… Continue reading February 28, 2025

February 14, 2025

Friday This rainbow greeted me first thing this morning. It’s Valentine’s Day here in Guam, but honestly I didn’t even have it on my radar until we went into the NEX/commissary on base yesterday. Oh, look! Balloons! Flowers! We picked up a box of chocolates for today, but each of us had one last night… Continue reading February 14, 2025

January 23, 2025

Beautiful Guam scenery

Thursday Not much writing-wise today as I spent my time down a rabbit hole of peel-and-stick back-splash tiles and decals for when we finally find a place to call home on this island. Then we had lunch at a Jamaican place. Scrumptious. I had a grilled vegetable sandwich and sweet potato fries and C. went… Continue reading January 23, 2025

January 19, 2025

Sunday Håfa Adai is the traditional Chamorro greeting in Guam. It’s pronounced “half-a-day.” I’m back to keep this journal on my website. I remember the first “computer” journal I ever kept. It was way back in the mid-80s when I was in high school and taking a beginner computer class. I think we were using… Continue reading January 19, 2025