Quick update on myself before I write the actually blog post: Hi, everyone! I’m not dead yet. I’m gearing myself up to resume writing. I am working on a big writing project. I am praying this one continues its current trajectory. I am keeping the podcast on hold for now. I do have some thoughts on it for the future. In the meantime, while I wax and wane on the amount of pushing I do to myself, I want to write up a post about use of the word “no.” Yes, I have already writt

I'm sitting in a comfy chair next to my writing desk writing. Why am I not sitting at my desk? Because normally I keep a table cloth on...

I have a first draft done for my next book! Woo Hoo!!! This is not a novel. This is a book on the reasons for Humor In Chaos. The last...

I came across a photo of me from 2018 when I was very ill from Lupus. It was in conjunction with an article I had written about living...

The Mighty online publisher of essays from people who are battling medical and/or mental health conditions recently republished an essay...

Nine years today I sat in a chair at the Quest Diagnostics Lab over by the movie theater while the nice gentleman with a very long gray...

STRESS!!! All of you who have to deal with problem stress every day, please raise your hands! Let me count. One, two, three… Looks like...

You all are going to think I am weird, but, have you ever given a name to something that isn't alive? I have. Many times. Usually, a car....

My fingers feel the miniscule titillating sensation of friction as the hard tip of the pen scours the delicate surface of the paper with...