She was An Anchor
This sadness knocks the wind out her It is heavy like a coat soaked with rain Carrying it around makes it impossible to breathe yet she must Thank You that I knew her because with out her I wouldn't be exactly who I am She is more than some of the reflection in my...
I Feel So Blessed
February was a hard month but it wasn’t without blessings and I feel so blessed! As many of you know since October 2021 I have been dealing with the fact that I Have Cancer. It has been a long road with much self-searching, changes in diet and lifestyle and even in...
Book Review: The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen
Kaija was raised in the forest by her grandmother, alongside her sister Minna. In the forest they were safe to practice their craft and be the witches they are but life was hard. Kaija wanted more. She missed friends and a sense of community. She was plagued by...
Book Review: Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fing
At 3 years old, the main character, Pik-Shuen, immigrated from China to Canada. She was with her mother and grandparents; her father stayed back in Hong Kong to keep working. They were very poor and they adults worked a lot but the short stories shared talk about...
Book Review: The Invasion of Heaven by Michael B. Koep
I have been working through a bag of books that I am supposed to pass onto Jamie’s sister, Joy, and I am almost through them all. In fact, now that I have finished The Invasion of Heaven by Michael B. Koep, I only have one more book to go. I was really surprised that...
5 Books for February 2024
I was really blessed to come from a family that loved books. My mother, my aunt and mostly my nana really instilled my love for books into me. Nana could tell the best stories, whether she was telling me about my ancestors or she was reading a story from a book or she...
I Was Locked Out of My Facebook Account
On the day after I had surgery I got an email from PayPal that my transaction with Facebook had gone through. I was on pain killers and supposed to be resting but I did not purchase any ads subscriptions with Facebook or Meta and I was angry. I had been having trouble...
I Like Things to Be Easy
I started a new notebook yesterday. I don’t use anything fancy, just a composition book that I can get for about $.50. I don’t keep them. I don’t re-read them or go through them once I have finished them. But I use them to write down my thoughts with my bible...
Book Review: Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro begins on August 27, 1985, when three teenagers get into a car and make choices that change all their lives and the lives of their families forever. Sarah and Theo Wilf live but their parents never really talk about what happened and it...
I Do Not Believe The United States Should Label Itself a Christian Nation
I love God and I am thankful that He chose me and I can call myself a Christian. I am also thankful that I was born in The United States because I have freedoms that I would not have in other countries. I appreciate that I live in a country founded on the belief of...
There Are Lots of Kinds of Pain
There are lots of kinds of pain. At the beginning of my last therapy session I had told my therapist that I was having a pain day and he asked me how I handled that. I told him that I responded differently, based on the kind of pain it was. If it is arthritis pain, it...
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