______________________________________________________________________________________________

PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Happy (70th) Birthday, Grandmary!


With love from family, friends, and friends who are family, a collaboratively concocted, designed, and coordinated memorial piece of artwork to say how much we love you on this very important birthday!

Now that the secret is out, we're going to share with the world!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Love you Mom!


Friday, April 18, 2014

Quote of the Day: As for Grown-ups...

"I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they are doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
 Lettie Hempstock*

~ Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane


* Or is she one of the faces of the Triple Goddesses?


Thursday, April 17, 2014

Quote of the Day: True of Everybody

"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody."    
Lettie Hempstock

~ Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Quote of the Day: No Place like Home

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
 Anna Quindlen How Reading Changed My Life

via the Interwebs

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Quote of the Day: Draw your lines in the sand

Dream about it 
Draw your lines in the sand 
Sometimes the way things happen 
We don’t need to understand

 

I get oceans of time 
Now I don't look for it 
I get to walk a blurry line 
Into the heart of it

~ Morten Harket