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Fletcherism: What It Is Or How I Became Young At Sixty (1913) is a book that’s now in the public domain. An early foray into the self-help genre, the big thing Fletcher proposed was to chew and chew and chew your food, 30 plus times, till it was “applesauce in your mouth,” (from a review)…

I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning these past few weeks and lightening the load as it were. It feels good, but it’s so hard to let go. I see value in so many things. I wonder if that’s part of my one of my strengths from the strengths finder test…And I looked it up,…

There’s nothing harder than telling someone something they don’t want to hear. I wonder if that isn’t more of a young persons thing, though. Once you get older and set in your ways, hard talks become just talks, you become immune to what other people think or maybe just selfish, finally, caring about your needs…

I chose the owl this week, what do you choose? I was watching the View yesterday and Kelsey Grammar was on. He recently wrote a book about his sister, who was tragically murdered. The reason he wanted to tell this story was because a psychic or channeler who spoke in the voice of his sister…

I am sadly not participating in my writing groups Story a Day May challenge to write a short story every day. I am instead participating in a coaching cohort through Becca Syme’s Write Better Faster organization. I struggle with my time so I really hope this exercise in getting to know myself better will help…

A quick update, the senior woman with dementia is thriving since her husband left her to move in with another woman. That said, the romantasy is starting to take shape! Even if love won’t actually last… I think maybe a romance is the best way for me to hide my disappointment in men for the…

You trust your parents love you. You trust your government to have your back. You trust your partner to care for you if anything happens. At least most of the time one of those is true. I know a woman in her 80s with Alzheimer’s/dementia. Her husband has been caring for her for the last…

Well, not me! My son had to have emergency wisdom tooth surgery which cancelled my husband and my few days in a cabin in Hocking Hills. And I think maybe I picked up a stomach bug because I’ve been staying close to the bathroom today. TMI? Yea, I’ve got more, but I’ll spare you. I…

I have had a story ready to submit for more than a week, but I keep putting off actually submitting it. I have the browser window open, the query letter written, and yet. What makes me doubt myself so? I know what I’m thinking. It’s not timely, it’s not good, no one will like it,…

I’m super late to post this week, and I have not much to say except Trump and Musk are unraveling our world and what makes us great at an alarming speed. It’s a dystopia in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.XcfJ.bjnZO8sj8_ZI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare I’m still noodling on the romance and have been considering setting it in a matriarchal society or…