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 Through the eyes of a writer and traveler 😁! Life and some spiritual musings. |
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Welcome Y'all 🤠. I'm into animal rescue and rights. Positive vibes and activism! 😻🙏 It's been interesting for the past 20 years. Good folks on here and a great 😃 writing community. It's time for rethinking my writing and growing as a person . Sharing how to help others and ourselves 😉 has always been my motivation! Hugs 🤗 to new and old peeps! " The journey of 10,000 miles Begins with one step 🪜. --Lao Tzu What you don't like Don't do to another. Rabbi Hillel Do unto others as you would have someone Do unto you. Jesus 🙏 |
Well me and y'all here I be! 🐝 We haven't been able to do our laundry 🧺 because of freezing weather. Maybe tomorrow. Got sis her reading glasses and they are useless. And made by an expert (?) in low vision. I'm not impressed and will have to return to do my Google maps reviews... On the writing front, Thinking about the Dear me contest and if I can pull it together by Wed? It's due Friday and we have her injection in eye that day. Anyway pain is rough with these freezing temps even with heating thanks God. I started taking notes 🎶 on an old project, Dee Dee's 🐝 🦌 Playhouse. Kind of Captain Kangaroo 🦘 and Romper room shows from old school time. Finding out things like who has Silicone in the bottom of their sugar, when you pour hot water on a cup of great value sugar and put in a strainer... Maybe should add to my Twilight zone group instead. Truth is truly stranger than fiction anymore... So good luck 🤞 to all with your plans. Be safe and well/warm! Blessings y'all 🤠 ❤️   **** Ok that was my weekly goals thing! Thanks Bro 🎉 and peeps 😉 Will return asap! |
| Whew another nutty 🥜 week y'all and I see we all have our issues and glad we post here and support each others goals, good days 🙏 🌹 and cra ppy ones! I'm so thankful for being here and having this place to be ( or not to 🐝 😆) On my worst days over the past 22 years and just the last 2 years, coming here and being welcomed to share our hearts, lives, writing ups and downs. It's been consistent here,no matter what was going on in our personal life and whatever with writing. I could come and feel a part of this community. I started taking notes 🎶 ✌️ towards my memoir projects. Got certified today for the medical Marijuana card ♠️ ♦️ 😎. After looking at my condensed medical files from 2020 to the present, the Doctor was impressed with what I brought and said ( after seeing copy of my Spine X-ray from 2021 and part of the 14 Drs ,pain management clinics and most didn't help me though they got paid for nothing...) He said " After seeing your well saved records and understanding your health situation, if you didn't qualify for the card, no body would!"lol. Truth be told. That was today and will get my card Monday. God is good everyday. I made a video in front of my mirror ( that has been ignored and needs cleaning 🧹 🧼! It was the first time I felt like making one. I have to figure out how to share it here! May have to upload to my old YouTube channel. The pain was bad today and not great now but life goes on and I will have safe help soon. Oyx doesn't help and not good for my liver! So farewell pretty soon 😁. Hello kitty pipe can't wait to see you again sweetie 😘 I hope this is all Kosher since it's the truth. Considering what's going on in the world, it's pretty tame! Have a blessed weekend 🌹 🪻 ☯️ 🙏 🦋 y'all To be continued and shared in my New vision blog! (oops y'all dinner in ten minutes so hopefully u enjoy the show! Hugs 🤗 🌹 see ya soon 💜❤️😻 |
| Things were going well until I got kicked out of the site and what I wrote was lost. So I'm doing this in my color Note app just in case... Hi y'all 👋🤠 last night was not what I expected and the thing is that any relationship is a challenge. We all have our own personalities and perspectives ( wow this thing remembers some of what I had written, so all is not lost!) I haven't been in a romantic relationship in 30 years ( which is a long story but will be told at another time!) No we are 2 siblings and seniors trying to look out for each other and not " Choke" each other out most days lol 😆🤪. We have a long history and couldn't stand each other back in the 1970s when we first met! Over the past decades, we've lived together on and off and raised kids and the grandkids whew . This past week was busy and nuts. Monday we dropped off the Xmas presents that didn't work and sent em back to Amazon. ( She got her Levi's and nice Nordic Ware cookies sheet. Nice quality and bigger than the last one ( 17 bucks and I have Prime so no shipping! ) She got a better deck of Tarot cards (Rider-Waite the original one we both started with). I'm waiting for Memoirs for Dummies (!) and oh yeah! I forgot about the kitty 🐈 drama this week. So I'm looking down behind the living room glass and wicker table. I see something purple on the wall 🧱. I pick it up --- only to realize that it was one of the little plastic pieces of our Mardi gras wreath. It was a musical note and Mojo 😸 had been chewing on it... She has a thing for plastic. On the Bottled Spring water pack, she nibbles it. 3 months ago I was scooping the litter box ( I do it daily most days) I look down and see something red in one of the poops 💩. Later it turned out to be part of the Rameys brand Spring water 💦! I freaked out and was checking her nose to see if it was cold ( yes warm is bad , could mean a fever). So here I am looking at a partly purple piece of plastic and realized she had been sucking on it and that's what the wet sticky stuff had stuck it to the wall 🧱. And you think you have problems! So I started looking for a chew toy for cats that was safe. ( When we had dogs found out Rawhide chews are super bad for them...) So I found some Silvervine cat chews on Amazon of course! They are like catnip and pretty safe. We'll see how it goes. So Tuesday we cleaned. Wednesday I saw my Nurse practitioner and she was happy to see I gained a few pounds and was looking so much better! Thursday was a freakin trip y'all. Finally going to get her glasses for driving. The Uber driver came about 8 AM and then said she thought we were going to Pascagoula and that's where she works. No we were going to Ocean Springs the other way. She called her work and said she's going to be 15 minutes late. She brings us to the wrong place and so we have to walk across an uneven field. No problem for me because I have great balance from dancing. Big problem for her and even though I was close to her and offered my arm, boom she falls down ( as she said " like a turtle 🐢 on my back and you just stood there and left me.) OMG no that's not what happened! I tried to break her fall but couldn't and reached down to help her up! C " Hurry up and get my purse " It was on the ground and her knit hat with the Alien 👽 on it. I grabbed both in my left hand and tried to pick her up with my right arm and left! She started laughing hard and saying" You let me fall down! I can't get up, it's on the side with my bad hip oh I think I s*** myself" and laughing even more. I'm thinking omg we have to go into the office and she may smell like 💩 and she's laughing and it's making it harder to get her up. "It's Not funny"I say. A few minutes later we got to the Eye doctor and no she didn't poop! Just another story to be amusing oye. So later got home and she said since we need kitty litter we should go to Walmart. I looked panicked because we have been having to take Uber to get there. Long story short We pulled out and as I'm about to tell her if she's clear etc. She said " Let me ask you don't tell me!" She made it to Murphy's and hardly needed me to tell her what color the light was etc. We made it to Walmart and had a good time. The people who were supposed to help me with my medical Marijuana card, are taking their time and was at least supposed to call me this week and let them know if the 20-buck records from my doctor was enough. I looked into another clinic and made an appointment for this week and filled out all the paperwork and medical information. So time to feed the kitties 😻 ☯️. Later will drop by group and visit, I did check in this morning. I may share on Facebook! Thanks for being there on this journey. I'm thinking of writing under my old pen 🖊️ name Dara Page! I will catch up with you in email and reviews I've been saving! Thanks for listening 🎧😎🌹🦌❤️🎄 |
| Hi y'all 🤠 Wow last blog post was Dec 31, but have been leaving ya messages on my wall 🧱 here and always so glad to hear back even with an emoji! Well hopefully this coming month of February will bring good things again from me 😁. I really miss reviewing and traveling around here saying hi and being part of my group's of peeps 😉 The hardest part of dealing with this s***ty health is not being able to acknowledge y'all when you leave a comment or send an email or Merit Badges. Even leaving a 💜or something and it really warms my soul to wake up and look to see if anyone stopped by! It really makes my day and boosts my spirit's! Nothing makes me more happy then to bring the same joy and happiness to others. I have tons of paper and notebooks 📓 that are waiting for me to sit down and read and decide where it needs to go! An article or poems or whatever. Over the past 2 years since all this started (Feb 2024) It's been nutz truly I started off the year signed up in Dec for the show not telling about emotions class given here free! Started making friends with Amethyst Angel, and others ( sadly our friend passed away after and I remember him and his writing yet his name is in fog... But I know y'all that knew him will know. I came back at the very end of the class and so many wanted me to finish anyway and thankfully I did because of the love and support here. There's a old school Motown Song, that just popped into my head " Ain't nothing like the real thing baby, ain't nothing like the real thing!🎶✌️🎶" Yeah we have the real thing here because of a dream that Our Storymaster and Mistress had and made it come true here. If y'all can tag em for me. I suck for now with the whole HTML thing. I appreciate your help and support. On Jan 10th it was my 22 anniversary here and so many brought tears of joy to my eyes to want to celebrate 🎊 it with me! I remember years ago when Sally Field got an award and she said " Wow you like me, you really like me" and she had tears in realizing that she had a connection with others who got and enjoyed her art and work in acting. I can totally relate because that's a beautiful thing that connection with others who enjoy your music 🎶 or poems or however we share our hearts and souls with others. I've performed music and did comedy and other things like that and it's so cool 😎 when you connect with the folks who get you and appreciate who you are. It opens a door 🚪 for people to get to know each other on deeper levels. Like when we review for each other and see something unique in the writing or understand what they were trying to say... It's a sort of magic 🪄 ✨ Like when a song says something more than the words, it's the feeling, the connection. I had to run downstairs to help sis find her Pyrex glass pan,as she started to make dinner and I'm trying to get back home to my family and our land of words! So yesterday we had Uber bring us to the UPS store, down the block from my Dr. We were returning 2 of her gifts to Amazon! A magnifying table glass thing that didn't help her to read or do puzzles. It was made of plastic and had a tiny little window on it, for her to see 30 x. Also I found her a Grateful Dead tarot deck and mini book. It had awesome artwork but the meaning of the cards were changed and not in alignment with the real Tarot cards meanings. It was so hard to figure out even with the Tarot book and having done the cards since we were teenagers! It was sad but it was spaced out, made up meanings. So instead she got another pair of Levi's jeans and a new Nordic cookie sheet! Had to throw the old one out! It was used when we bought it and we used it for 3 years and got our money's worth!! She said I should get something too, like incense or whatever. There was 10 bucks left in the gift card balance. I have years of things that was put in my cart and saved for later! In fact I picked out a pair of the tree of life earrings and necklace, that I put in 6 or so years ago! I got it for my Xmas birthday gift! Today I got a book from about the same time. It's Writing memoirs for Dummies!! LoL I learned HTML back in early 2000 from it. So I'm looking forward to finally getting part of my life story started again, after so many false starts. And if course our perspectives change over the years. And now we aren't raising kids and they are safe and doing well in Oregon 🌹. So thanks for hanging in there with me and my krew! Cheryl gets her glasses on Thursday and hopefully will be driving a lot further soon 😁!!! All my love and hugs and thanks y'all.🙏🙏🙏😊😊🙏 I couldn't have done this all without y'all. Your love , prayers and humor and encouragement kept me from giving up and leaving here. Thanks from the bottom of my heart mind and spirit 📜 soul! May 2026 be safe and awesome for us all Amen indeed 👍 ☯️ 😎 🦋 😉 Speak soon 😁 🔜! |
| Just wanted to wish y'all a Happy New year 🎊🎊🕛✌️☮️☯️🙏🤠🐾💃🧙♀️😘🍯🦜🎇📜✍️ May 2026 be a Blessed and better year for all of us. I tried to wish someone who was a friend a happy birthday 🎉🎂 but they didn't want to know. I'm thankful for all the folks who wished me a happy birthday on Christmas ⛄ 🌲🌴! And for being there the rest of the days! Thanks to my brother here Mike 🤠 and Sunny ☀️😎, princess Megan 🌹🩷☮️ am☯️ Angel, PW Wheeler,Dave Ryan and the rest of y'all. Glad we have a blessed space 🌌🚀 where we can meet and be together all year 😉 long! So tomorrow is Jan first and instead of calling Uber,we are leaving early to go to Walmart and do big shopping 🛒! Cheryl's glasses finally came in and are waiting to get called in for em! We ordered a magnifying glass lamp 🛋️ from Amazon but sending it back cause it didn't help. Got some cool stuff on Christmas 🎁🧧 and can't wait to share some fun stuff with y'all 🩷✌️🙏. As I get off the pain pills I'm getting more clear headed and having more energy! I need to update my pic's! I did Loreal black cherry 🌸 purple 💜 because I'm worth it lol 😆 🤪! Came out nice and got some makeup in my Xmas stocking! Today was the first day I wasn't retching. That's a big deal 🤝 and miracle! I hear the Amtrak 🚆 train 🚂 at 7 am. It's headed to New Orleans. We were going to take it around Dec 9 ( the day before Cheryl's birthday 🎉) We didn't make it. Between her vision issues and my lousy health didn't make it far this year except for medical visits and food shopping! I have faith that this will be a better year for us and others as well 🙏🌹. I got another Saint Therese ( the little flower 🌹) statue and hope to spend more time being thankful rather than always asking... Sometimes we just have to wait and know things work out the way they are meant to be. I wish you all love, good luck 🍀 and good health. To be safe and have your needs met. To be part of the chain ⛓️ of good in the world 🌎🌍 and bring hope, smiles nice 🦌🙂😸 stuff to others and ourselves. To appreciate what we have and find joy and beauty each day. That's my prayer 🙏🌹 y'all Hugs 🤗 Be blessed!☯️☮️🚂🍀⛓️💜🌸✌️🛋️😉🤝 Ps gave Maxy and Mojo 😸 catnip treats as the Ash cans and other fireworks are pretty loud!!! Luv y'all |
( Hi y'all 🤠, I wrote the following just free hand on Facebook. I had the Wilderbeast yuk, this morning 🌄 🌅 and for 24 days pretty much didn't. Maybe 4 days of lil beastie but have had more energy lately. Yesterday I brought out the tote of Xmas 🎄 🦌 🎁 ornaments from my closet,along with Mench on the bench and Hanukkah menorahs and candles. Cheryl couldn't find the Xmas stockings in it and I emptied out my walk in closet and added to the stack's of books and other stuff waiting for a place to be! As it turned out they WERE in the bottom of the green tote,as I thought they would have been the first to be packed! There's only 2 stockings 🧦 to put up, instead of the many for the grandkids and pets. As was in the past. I will copy some of the notes I've been taking about everything going on. From changing my meds to funny conversations that seemed to be worth writing down! We've been watching NCIS and Origins both really good shows 😎 😁 💜. Also still watching " Call the Midwife, and Poldark on Netflix. Another great period show that takes place in the 1780s and around. Awesome storyline and very dimensional characters. So below is the Facebook post with pictures of the tree and decorations. I've been meaning to bring some pics here to share and start learning to use the formula to share Merit Badges too. Mike was kind enough to write ✍️ it down and I need to copy it in my WDC notebook 📓 📒 for future reference. I'm very much behind but haven't stopped either! (This is the first year I decorated the tree myself. She did the walls but I didn't realize she couldn't see enough to help this year. She can't see the ornaments,only the tree and lights. She had beers and I don't drink much or have any smoke right now. I guess I should have known but didn't. Guess she's right " it's no big deal" For decades we put up the holiday stuff and I took so many pictures. Of the kids, the food, the places we took em. Even though I worked in Nursing/retirement homes in my 30 s. It doesn't prepare you for when you get to those ages, yourself Seeing other seniors at eye doctor visit etc. they look older than us. Short hair ( ours very long) and how people carry themselves or dress. Seldom do we see others with a young spirit like us! 😉 Guess I'll copy this ditty to add to a blog post later or tomorrow. Sis was surprised when I said " I didn't know you weren't going to decorate the tree. I was in shock and even though I know your sight isn't good. Didn't get it right away." We listened to Christmas 🎄🦌⛄ songs and had the Yule log 🪵 on TV. Remembering the time's we had real fireplaces. Real logs we had split 🪓 and enjoyed the heat and the sight of it in Oregon. On grey 🩶 rainy cold 🥶❄️ days . " Sometimes the light 🕯️ is shining on me, other times I can bearly 🐻 🐨 See. Lately it appears to me, What a long strange trip it's been " -indeed- Jerry Garcia 🎼🎶🎸📻🥁💽🍄) Time to clean 🫧 the kitchen 😉 oh yeah I did get the bathroom cleaned up with the kitties litter box yesterday. I need a bit of chocolate pudding and whipped cream! Blessing's y'all 🤠❤️🙏 🌹🪻🌜🕯️☯️ |
Wow today makes 21 days of no " beast" in the morning! Am thankful to be waking up feeling better each day 😊. I did get a lot of stuff done in my room, moving my shelf I got from Amazon last Christmas by my closet. I moved a wooden one bought at a thrift store the first year we moved back, to the wall by my bed and put some books on it. The one's I've been meaning to read like "Waging heavy peace ✌️" by Neil Young and " On writing" by Steven King ( which I've read several times since it came out!) and some Spiritual Jewish and Catholic books 📚 😺 🦋 😎 🙏 💟! I didn't get much writing done yet but organizing my journals and mini notebooks to date them and find old writing projects that never got very far. I also have to respond to comments on my blog and a review of My Twilight Zone fan group. I have tons of links saved for sharing again. It really feels like a miracle that I'm well enough to be doing rather than just thinking 💭 🤔 of doing. Thankful for my grandkids and 3 reached out to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Spoke to 2 today and texted with one yesterday. Sis and I ordered some Xmas stuff and will be wrapping them up 😁! Will share this with my peeps here 😉 Have a blessed weekend 🌹 🪻 ☯️ 💐 y'all 💕 🙏 😸 🎵 Grateful! ( I wrote the above for my weekly goals update! The only thing I missed doing was enter the WDC contest for writing about what inspired us from a song that was shared from YouTube! It was about being thankful 🙏 and I'm going to probably do a post here anyway and include the song I was very touched 🥲 by it and subscribed to the group playing it. Sorry I missed y'all this week but you understand! Hugs 🤗 to y'all and speak soon 🔜! 😽 Blessings 🙏 💞 ( Was heartbreaking to learn about the 2 National Guards shot this week, praying that he the 24-year-old soul will make it.) 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕🙏 |
| Whew folks thanks ever so much for the meaningful virtual hugs 🤗🌹 and stuff yesterday especially! Today the test was hard but turned out groovy 😁! My stomach is normal and looks like I'm going to be ok y'all! Since everything checked out it seems the only culprit was the medicines I was on for it... I won't go into detail but couldn't have anything to eat and drink. And had to call and make sure I could take my medicine like thyroid and such. It was ok but wanted to be sure 😊! I thought I'd have four hours to hang out and write ✍️ but had to stay in the machine for couple of hours, looking at the ceiling, watching Myth Busters! I was let out near noon and had to be back at noon. Had a quick smoke and it turned out I was 90 % 👍 done and left soon after. I forgot they gave me some nasty oatmeal plain and a slice of bread. I couldn't eat much of it ugh! So I'm hoping to maybe make weekly goals again and settle down here 😉😄 again 🙏💗! For those who don't know Cheryl is my stepsister but love is thicker than blood! I'm getting her the drum and we are getting some Xmas goodies from Amazon! It's too hard right now to do secret shopping so we picked out some stuff and I'll let you know what! She was very stressed out about my health and just wanted me to be ok. It didn't seem like the medical profession was being too helpful. Not all are but some have been working with me to be ok in the morning and beyond. So I got a nice C Note 🎵 from My Editor Word Smitty with good wishes for the test and thanks for the proofing help on the Blogging Bliss newsletter! Some GPS to help me on my quest to get my Merit Badges into my WDC album! I'm waiting on Audrey Hepburn from Princess Megan 🌹! Thanks y'all 😊😊😊✌️☮️🙏😜🦋😸🦃 and Happy thankful thanksgiving 🎉💗💞 Have a blessed night and thanks for all your prayers 🙏!dd |
| Well, y'all hi! 😺 It's been 14 days since I haven't sounded like a wild jungle beast! My record was about 2-3 days so big deal it is! I have the four-hour test on Monday to see if I have the " Rare" Gastroparesis or not. I don't want to have it because the menu sucks! It says to have cauliflower in a blender and other gross stuff! I've been eating pretty normal, watching my sugar intake and that's no easy task! I'm starting to get my energy back, and not totally depending on sugar and caffeine 😉. It's taken a lot of determination on my part and not wanting to wake up like " death warmed over either!" Over the past year I have wondered if I was going to croak soon. There's days I had a struggle to keep going but I got up and had coffee and fed the kitties 😻. Maxy would come over and understand I didn't feel good. I still would pet her and brush her anyway. Mojo also looks out for me 😀! Tonight I should be eating dinner but we had a stupid argument over Nursing not being a profession. I know some Nurses are good and some don't always have a clue. I wanted to be a pediatric oncologist in the 1990s. It didn't turn out that way but did make CNA. I did my best to take care of people and now find myself in the same age range as the folks I took care of. I don't look like them or inside feel other than just me 😉! I don't look down on other people but some do judge me. For the most part I've done my best in this life for my family and others. Many have walked away because I didn't become famous for music or comedy or writing. That's ok because I'd rather have folks that accept me for me and not some illusion! We put a bunch of Xmas stuff on Amazon and it's just waiting for $ to come in. I'm going to give SIS an African drum that is like one she got 30 years ago. My daughter and I went to this store in Athens GA and picked it out for her birthday. Five years ago it was ruined by a tree that fell on the house in a bad storm. I wrote the folks on eBay to see if I had a chance to get it for her and they lowered the price bless em! I picked out a Beatles Sgt. Pepper shirt in blue to replace others I had. So for the most part things are going good except for being called stupid for thinking Nursing is a profession. She gets an attitude when she has beer sometimes and calls me naive. That's life people don't get along sometimes. So I'm hoping to get back to the weekly goals again and emailing here and being more in touch! I can't believe I'm gonna be 71 on Xmas 🎄 whoa! Could be worse I at least am above ground!!! I may even update my dear me 2025! It's a thought 💭! So sending thanks and hugs y'all crazy writing people 😘! Glad we are in each other's lives ❤️😌 Ps I was going to post but she had to come in to say " I'm not stupid for being mistaken about Nursing not being a profession but just a job" it's just a conversation not being in the real world. I am thinking of moving away I'm tired of arguing. And being put down. I can't bring cat on bus but will have to figure out something. I'll do my best to stay in touch here. I'm sorry this turned out this way. I was in my room writing this all. And she had to start it again saying " The only reason I'm mad is because I never became a nurse". I said that's not true, it's not even a profession right?" I wish my life was simple and not completely complicated . Was looking forward to the holidays and not sure how to think or feel about anything. Have a blessed Thanksgiving y'all.  |
| Today is Wednesday and this week has been a big deal and blessings 😄🙏🌹! There's an old song that in part goes, What a difference a day makes. 24 little hours or so. This week I've been better for 7 days in a row! No " Wilderbeast" noise and sickness first moments of waking up. I have changed my intake of sugar and caffeine and am almost totally okay 👍! Last week my sister saw a reel on Facebook that had an old Chinese herbalist named Moon 🌙 who spoke about how sugar can cause the body to overwork itself and feel like it needs more for energy. One thing was the fact that I was getting up to pee at 2 or 3 AM. And he mentioned that if one did, it meant the body was working harder to expel the sugar. After cutting out a lot of sugar and being aware of that reality. I started sleeping through the night 🥱! I've been doing this for a week and there's a big difference in how I feel. And have gained weight that I needed. I'm 110 not 107! I'm thankful for my sister trying to help me get better. And my friends whom are a lot here on WDC! I'm looking forward to being " back from the dead" that's really how it felt. Looking forward to write ✍️ about other things besides my health issues!! I have learned a lot too in my travels. And maybe will write about it in an item. Glad we have World News Tonight with David Muir now. I got us Disney plus this week! Thanks for being there 😊 Hugs 🤗 |
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