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

January 24, 2025

Photos by Shelley

Friday We discovered another really good lunch place. Mosa’s Joint. It has a bar and indoor and outdoor seating, a huge menu, very fresh food, lovely salads and sandwiches, and even a meatloaf special. C had the chicken sandwich special. I had a Mahi-Mahi burritos. Both of us had side salads, plus I indulged in… Continue reading January 24, 2025

Writing Life: Heading Over the Rainbow

Writer’s Brain I don’t know about other writers, but if I spend too much time researching, reading, recharging, or goofing off rather than tapping away at my keyboard doing actual writing, I get as agitated and depressed as a Kansas farm girl watching her balloon-ride home drift away into the heavens.  This is my state… Continue reading Writing Life: Heading Over the Rainbow

Writing Life: 3 Cool Ways to Work Around Procrastination

Procrastination. As a writer, I’ve built elaborate scaffolds of procrastination, making work that is really an avoidance of the work of novel-writing.  I’ve built a website. I started a blog. I created a new Facebook account. I began writing female-empowerment flash fictions to post on Facebook.  I made an Instagram account. I took photos of… Continue reading Writing Life: 3 Cool Ways to Work Around Procrastination