The holler was calm that evening, the kind of Appalachian stillness that wrapped itself around the trees and cabins like a worn quilt. A low fire crackled at the center of the gathering circle, ...

My cousin's husband, AP, is one of those people who didn't practice healthy habits his entire life, and is now paying the price at 79.  Years of obesity, smoking, lack of exercise, and poor diet...

I have so many dreams I have put on the back burner. Sometimes giving up on dreams is focusing on your family. Family is the most important. I don't feel bitter about it. It is part of being a r...

Well, I'll continue writing about the memories another day. Today I'm thinking about uploading gaming videos to TikTok again, but I don't really know. I'll try to do something different.

How much did Valentine’s cost you? I’m embarrassed about it - but a memory was made and the smile has been non stop. Win-win

a long time ago in a county far far away... i was listening to some older music today... teetering on the edge of disco and still rooted in my red neck ways... it made me realize that i had f...

The art of student doodling in notebooks is a creative, often subconscious, act born from boredom or stress, transforming plain margins into imaginative worlds with simple shapes, patterns, char...

Card I made inspired by I Stand On The Line by Kae Tempest: I never got to ask about that job.  For various reasons, I wasn't able to talk to my TL until yesterday, by which time the ad had...

thinking of travel to a place we've never been but where Victoria Melbourne Sydney and what we will do there  visit? stay?  it is just a thought right now 

Dear God, I woke up this morning thinking about the guy colleagues I studied with. It felt so good to be productive alongside them. I woke up calm — not anxious — but comforted, clear on wha...

I just realized that I’m psychic. Not in a vague way. In a very specific and intense way. It has often occurred to me that something that I’ve experienced as if it were my own- a thought, a ...

I take my morning commute in 10 degree silence. My truck has remote start, but I don’t use it anymore. I just put my winter work armor on and hop in. Enjoy that stiff, dimming-service-lights mo...

For those of you in the bleakness of a more prolonged winter we may get snow this week after everything is starting to bud and even bloom, (some daffodils are blooming) so I feel you. There ...

“Double check this stool sample for me” the doctor said, confused and concerned, “this shit doesn’t make any sense.” A great pun, but also a terrible mental image, lay inside the phrase ...

I am livid.  Very rarely have I ever come home in such a state, especially at the end of a workday, but here I am.  I have reached a point where I don't know if all the effort I'm exerting at w...