It’s been that kind of year. Alternating layers of dark and light. It started on Jan 3 with my eye/neurological issue that saw me admitted for an emergency 3-night hospital stay including a scary lumbar puncture and countless tests…with no conclusions as to why this happened, leaving me with some permanent vision loss in my […]
When My Estranged Father Died
15 Nov 2024. My father died on this day. It’s taken me a while to write this. I wish I could have found a photo of us, posted it and shared my grief with the world as soon as I heard. But I couldn’t. Not because I didn’t have any photos of him with me […]
World Mental Health Day 2024, You Might Just Be Proud Of Me.
Oh boy, and it’s October just like that. And it’s World Mental Health Day today. So Happy WMHD to you, and I hope you can find a little time today to breathe and do something nice for yourself. I’m not doing much for this year’s WMHD, normally I’d pick a topic to write up for […]
Mid-Century Musings!
It is kind of ironic how on a year that is rather significant, I did not do my usual birthday post. Well, if the beginning of the year, with my emergency hospital admission, is any indication, things this year are turning out in rather unexpected ways. Whether it is something big or small, it does […]
Talk about a dramatic start to the year!
It’s been less than a month into the new year and so much has already happened. I’m re-reading my 2023 recap now and once again, I am struck by the irony of it all. When I said that “I was concerned about the other shoe dropping”, gosh, I certainly didn’t realise it would be my […]