It’s been eight months since I arrived home from my last day in The Real World and began shielding myself from the world because of…
This morning was one of those days. It was one of those days when I woke up and I wasn’t a widow. I woke up…
As hard as it seems to believe, I have been isolating at home for seven months now. Yes: seven months. And whilst I had been…
Over the past two months I have gone back through every single one of the 1,400+ posts here on my blog, as part of the…
I have taken a week off from work to use up my holiday entitlement, but because my continued COVID19 isolation, I am staying near to…
I visited The Real World today so that I could attend a hospital appointment for a routine check up on my kidneys, Bob and Dave.…
As Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) wraps up here in the UK, I find myself reflecting on my mental health in relation to the COVID19…
I have long been aware of the privileges I have in this world simply because I am a white, Christian, American. That’s not to say…
As is tradition, a new year means a new resolution. Generally, my resolutions are set as a way to focus on self-improvement in realistic terms.…
It is Mental Health Awareness Week here in the UK, so I thought I’d share a bit about my recent efforts to keep my mental health in…
Sometimes in life, you wobble. And no matter how strong and sturdy you thought you were, you begin to sway back and forth; wobbling. That’s…
My time at Serenity Lodge is coming to an end, and I am finding that the calming serenity I found here is starting to fade away,…
When you live your life without a partner, it can be lonely. Even if you fill your days with friends and acquaintance, it can be…
I want to fly. I want to soar into the sky and touch the Heavens. I want to reach all of my goals; I want to…
Some days, I think about how lonely I am, and about how I want to find someone to share my life with. I think about…
For nearly two years now, I’ve been experiencing an extreme amount of stress. Some days and weeks have been harder than others, but there hasn’t…
I mentioned a while back that my life was suffering because I was unable (and in some ways, unwilling) to set a few routines for myself. So…
For the last six years, I have experienced a wide variety of what I call “widow dreams”. Some are more upsetting than others, but they…
Clutter is everywhere. It’s in our closets. It’s in our kitchen cupboards. It’s in our bathroom cabinets. It’s in our desk drawers. It’s in our…
I spoke the other day about the higher-than-normal levels of personal stress I’m experiencing, and that I feel I need a break from my current way of…