“People say, I write for myself, and it sounds so awful and so narcissistic, but in a sense if you know how to read your own work — that is, with the necessary critical distance — it makes you a better writer and editor.” — Toni Morrison George Orwell had…

Yesterday made one year that my father has been gone from this human realm. As many reasons as I had to smile all day, I felt the corners of my mouth turn down when I wasn’t performing for others. When the Google Meetings, chats with friends, and hilarious memes came…

NOVEMBER HAS ARRIVED! I started this Memento Mori journey a year ago when I turned 41. I have lived to see another year, so I am now 42 and making it do what it do! I count this year of intentionally blogging about life every month, as a success. It…

October has arrived with some of my favorite things. Fall/Autumn, Halloween, pumpkin spice lattes (judge away), and becoming one month closer to my birth month. This month has also definitely been an exercise in unblocking my throat chakra. The unblocking has involved not repeating myself to people invested in not…

There are only two months left in the documenting of my Memento Mori and three months left in 2021. I ended August looking forward to more easy breathing, love, peace of mind and abundance of everything that’s good for me and less to none of what isn’t. Even though this…

As July closed out, I told myself that I’d look forward to reclaiming insurmountable amounts of time and freedom in August. That didn’t happen the entire month of August. HOWEVER, the first two weeks? I felt like I was on a neverending cloud of happiness. I anticipated the 4th…

1,085 words were written on August 1st for my July Memento Mori. I’m not going to delete them, but all of it won’t be for public consumption. No matter how honest, true, and real , something else needs to be said. The thing I desire most right now is to…

There was a writing prompt I recently saw that said to write about disappointment. These are the questions listed to get the brain jogging: “What do you do when someone you love, follow or admire lets you down? How do you react when you’ve been hoping, praying and looking forward…

June hasn’t been the insufferable cunt it could have been BUT it has been a month of reflecting and tough decision making. This month has been difficult to write about because I want to change how I feel but that ain’t how processing feelings works. I used to be so…