Writing

My copy of Stephen King’s “On Writing” arrived on Friday of last week. Wowee, it is even better than I expected, and my expectations were pretty high, since I’ve been a fan of his fictional work since middle school. I love his essential style of choosing words that are so descriptive that I can see

Bloganuary 20 – What Irritates You About the Home You Live In?

I live in a flat, on the third floor of a smallish appartment building. Don’t mind me, I can’t get my terms straight, having been born and raised in the South West US, transplanted to Italy and confusing the terminology of US, UK and Italian-to-English. Anyway, a 73 mt2 flat with two bedrooms, one bath

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I live in chaos. That is, I am untidy, have lots of frequently changing interests, but very little physical room to put things away. Therefore, there are just untidy piles of things here, there and everywhere in my home. I have even taken over most of my son’s wardrobe, who is himself untidy (who can

Loss and Feeling Lost

On November 9th 2021 my beloved mother drew her last breath and left this world. She had just turned 80 in September, apparently she had a fall and hit her head that same month and, in true Mom fashion, didn’t let anyone know about the incident. A month later she had a serious stroke and

Bloganuary Prompt 2

What is a road trip I would love to take? Honestly, I had to Google the definition of a road trip, apparently it is any trip done in a car. So. That said, my family takes a road trip every year to go on summer holiday as per the definition, but that doesn’t really seem

Bloganuary Prompt 31

Whenever I look at the stars, which is generally when I’m on summer holiday in Croatia, I feel connected to the millennia of humans who looked at those same stars. The diamond-studded night time summer sky, arching over the dark sea, the only place that I can actually see the stars, brings me back to

Bloganuary Prompt #1

I think that my first piece of advice to my teenage self would be to live in the moment and not always reach for a far-off future, to not be in such a hurry to get there that I don’t appreciate the moment. I would advise myself to take the typing class, to do my

Bloganuary prompt 30

Many years ago my husband and son gave me a small lemon tree as a Mother’s Day gift. It was lovely and green, had white flowers and leaves that hid it’s long thorns. That is me, though not quite so green anymore. I am thorny as all get out, even if I have all the

Bloganuary prompt 29

How am I changing the world? Hmm, gosh, this is a tough one. I am changing my own personal world by trying new things, such as blogging and posting as a blogger on social media. I am working on making videos, though I’m not very good at it so far. I am working cultivating inner

What I’m Listening To – Prompt 28

I have loads of different artists on my playlist, Pink, Michael Bublé, Santana, musicals, ’70’s, ’80’s and ’90’s, Elton John, Spice Girls, Barbara Steisand, Bee Gees, U2, Steely Dan. When I listen to music, it is of all generes; rock, pop, blues, orchestral, so so many. The problem is that I don’t often listen to