My wife has decided she needs to go back to Kentucky to help her mom again. I mentioned in an earlier post that she had fallen and broken her arm. My wife went to check on her and help her out some after it happened. She felt bad when she left, Her mom has a … More More Hermit Life Begins Today
I have been home alone for a week now. With the exception of the blog, I have basically taken that week off. I’ve done some laundry. I’ve cooked for myself and cleaned up from that. I have done little else besides reading, watching football, and taking walks. It was nice, but also very lonely. It … More Getting Back on Track
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams. Sometimes I wake up feeling unsettled and I assume it was from a dream but I have no recall of the dream itself. Some mornings I wak up with the dream clearly in my head. Today is one of those days and it is lingering. In the dream, … More More Fun With Dreams
I’ve written here before about how my dog had started waking me up very early in the morning to go out. When this first started I would go back to bed and try to go back to sleep. That was complicated by the dog following back upstairs and jumping up in the bed to sleep … More Embracing the Pre-Dawn Hours
The three people who responded to my poll said I should post it so here is the first thing I wrote this morning. It’s dark and dreary outside. It will likely be this way for a couple of days. We have less daylight every day. I’m not getting enough sleep. There are various reasons for … More Dreary
Yesterday in therapy I talked about how part of my stress over certain things were increased by stories friends shared on social media. They just happened to share a story about a topic that was part of my anxiety. For them it was “here is some interesting news I saw” while for me it was … More Trying to De-Stress My Online Life
I have had my laptop open for an hour. I’ve started and trashed several posts. I can’t seem to get the words out. I am only reading it fits and starts. It could be the book. It could be me. It could be both. I can’t settle my mind enough to do more than barely … More The Funk Continues
This has been a hard week. I have managed to post something every day. It hasn’t been easy and the posts were generally short and didn’t take a lot of effort. This is the time when I wish I had saved up some of the book tag type posts so I have a guide for … More How Do You Write When You Don’t Feel Right?
I’ve written before about what I call sudden onset melancholy. It is also one of the band names on my list. Those days when I’m just sad without a firm reason for the sadness. On those days, like today, it’s really hard to do much more than sit on the couch under a blanket and … More It’s Hard Sometimes
We are leaving to visit family Thursday. I always have a little stress when we travel even if it just a drive like this time. Here are things that have added to this stress to make it almost unbearable. Typing this real quick on my iPad. I guarantee there will be multiple mistakes. I don’t … More Stress On Top of Stress
