Put down the iPhone, turn off twitter, close your feed reader…

Shut it all down, shut it all off and go be good to yourself for an hour. You do not have to do that one more thing, take care of this one last item. Just… pause. You’ll thank yourself for it, I promise.

I”m a very stream-of-consciousness sort of writer.
I don’t outline what I’m going to write in advance.  I don’t even really think about it. 
If I’m writing in response to my emotions or something, I may stew on it a few days but I stew somewhere at the back of my mind with no real focus on [...]

So last year (there I go, doing it again.  I start so many blog posts with “so…”. It’s like I was in the middle of a conversation with y’all, got distracted and came right back to it like I never stopped. Heh)
Anyhow.  Last year, Taylor saw some guy giving away a shed on Craigslist or [...]

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” ~Rita Mae Brown
So…
Yeah…
And what if you, your family and nearly all your friends are at least slightly insane?
Maybe that’s why I have such [...]

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe….” ~H.L. MenckenIf I haven’t said it enough lately…I have some really, really great friends.I”ve been wary, for a long time, of creating actual friendships.I lost all mine in my [...]