As I mentioned in my last post, I have been researching the e-cigarette as an alternative to traditional smoking. Blu Cigs won over the scores of other brands on the market for several reasons. Price was the first major factor. The glowing reviews from scores of heavy smokers that have said that they haven’t touched [...] Read more »
Establishing New Traditions for the Holidays
This year marks a new tradition for my family. In the years past, my mother or my mother-in-law would cook the turkey for Thanksgiving. All I had to do was make the hors d’oeuvres and help clean up. My mother moved away several years ago, and my mother-in-law has recently passed on. Neither of them [...] Read more »
A Much-Needed Getaway
Normally, we go visit my husband’s family during summer vacation. Several factors prevented us from going out of state, but I was determined to take my boys somewhere before school started. My husband and I went to Hearst Castle fifteen years ago and really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of Moro Bay and San Simeon. With [...] Read more »
Writing to Heal
My mother-in-law passed away on June 2 from bacterial meningitis. Her passing was sudden and left her immediate family with bittersweet emotions. Four days after she died, I bought Journalution along with Beth Jacobs’ Writing for Emotional Balance. I had started journaling in my early twenties, but fell out of the habit after I reentered [...] Read more »
Hanging in There
Today marks the end of February is almost here, and I realized that I haven’t written a single post on this blog. I’ve started to write things, only to chuck them because they depressed me and added no new perspective than what is already floating around in cyberspace. So I’ve been doing what I always [...] Read more »
Too Close to Home
I debated whether or not to write about this. Firstly, I’m not looking for sympathy. Secondly, I don’t want to broadcast a family’s pain for everybody to see. So, I’m going to try and write this from a different angle because the messages I want to convey are important. I’ll cut right to the chase [...] Read more »
After the Fact
The downside to participating in the NaNoWriMo is mental exhaustion. I haven’t touched my story since I surpassed The Goal on Friday, mainly because my main characters were veering into a direction I didn’t like. I’ve decided to let this story sit for at least a week. Then, I’m going to tackle the outline again, [...] Read more »
Last Day of Summer
My boys will be heading off to school tomorrow. In prior years, I was relieved to have a break from the fighting even if it meant fighting with them later to get their homework done before dinner. Not so this season. We went on a special vacation, to several movies, had the occasional lunch, and [...] Read more »
Another Year Older
I received a nice surprise yesterday when an old friend called to wish me a happy birthday. We talked for a good half an hour about a variety of things. Then she got on the subject of making time for your friends and how tomorrow might not come for one of us. This was after [...] Read more »
Vacation 2008
This year, we visited Monticello, which is the home of Thomas Jefferson. The grounds were quite impressive. Jefferson was a farmer, among many other things. Before our tour started, an older gentleman led us through the backyard and told us about the hurdles Jefferson had to face with cultivating his crops on top of a [...] Read more »
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