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I feel like I'm fading away Life cannot make me stay In my final hours I've lost all my power Its ten seconds to midnight Something just doesn't feel right. My hands on an invisible trigger Fear couldn't get any bigger. I sense the end is near for me The fate that awaits, I long… Continue reading Fading Away
Well, it's official. My husband and our 16-month-old granddaughter have tested positive for COVID-19. My test results haven't come back yet. We knew we were sick, but I honestly didn't think it was "that sick" until my husband completely lost his sense of taste and smell. The baby, who is autistic and non-verbal at this… Continue reading Coronavirus
Good morning and Happy New Year! It's 2021 now, and things aren't looking any better than last year. As such, I've decided to just focus on college, writing, and family. The world is chaos and I don't like it. I lost my job, so I have some free time. Time to write. New medications are… Continue reading Second Chance Progress Check-In
I'm currently on a two-week winter break from college. It's a much needed break. As last term ended, I was refreshing my brightspace classroom often, watching for final scores to be posted. My 4.0 GPA hanging precariously in the air. When the dust of the term settled, my GPA still sits at 4.0. I'm eternally… Continue reading Happy Holidays!
Well, NaNoWriMo was an absolute bust. I spent most of November buried in homework and sick. My final word count was just shy of 15,000. A dismal attempt, to say the least. With any luck, I will still be around next year to try again. As December arrived, and is now steadily passing me by,… Continue reading It’s Been Awhile…
November has been a whirlwind, and we are only ten days in. I signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month), so that has kept me occupied beyond belief. The election consumed several days from me. I will not discuss political opinions here, as that isn't what I created this page for. Instead,… Continue reading NaNoWriMo – A Reflection on Writing
After traveling home from Missouri, I've been really struggling this week to find the motivation to write a blog post. It's not that there isn't anything to write. Quite the opposite. There is so much I want to say that I cannot pick one single topic that is more important than the others. If you… Continue reading Finding the Motivation to Write
I read somewhere that Cancer takes everything from you. I refuse to accept this. Yesterday started rough for me. After traveling all day and not getting much sleep the night before, I woke up moody. So did the baby. We were both a little ornery and sleepy. My brother and his two little kids came… Continue reading Things Cancer Can’t Have From Me
As I was going through my writing folders today, I found this poem from 1998, when I was 14 years old. We had days of rain due to an El Nino storm. I'd never heard of such a thing before. Also, I was deep in a Shel Silverstein fueled haze, hence the comical and playful… Continue reading Blame It On El Nino – A Playful Poem
Yesterday was my granddaughter's first birthday. We had a very small party for her at our house. There were several factors that led to the "small" party.
Cathy Marie Bown 