we can invent hold music that doesn’t make you want to slit your wrists withing minutes of hearing it. Continue reading →
Month: December 2024
It’s as though the world around me is crumbling
I know that it’s Christmas Eve. Doesn’t matter to me. Still feels like my world is crumbling around me. Three deaths of three people who were an important part of my life as various times in less than three weeks. It’s hard to just shake that off. Two of them carried some of the earliest memories of my childhood. The other carried the memories of being adults together.
Getting older means loss way too often. But when that loss hits you one right after the other, well, it really lays you back on your heels. So here’s hoping the rule Continue reading →
Only here
Seems like the ADN is no longer interested in my columns. So anything I write will be seen here and on Facebook. And now I won’t have to clean up my language.
And now I can’t get this to post. Sigh. Life was easier when we just used pen and paper.
It’s a curmudgeon Christmas
I am not a holiday person. Not Christmas. Not New Year’s. Not my birthday. Not the Fourth of July. You get the picture. But here’s the thing. A lot of people don’t.
This is probably because my experience has been that most people do like holidays and like celebrating them. They cannot imagine not wanting to. But I don’t. And I’m not alone. I’m just brave enough to say it out loud for the world to hear. Most of us hide in the closet afraid to speak our true feelings because we will be mocked, at a minimum, and shunned Continue reading →