Intro post #1 here. Okay, so you’re keeping dedicated notes and you’ve kind of figured out that there are three basic flavours of Being Stuck In Bed that have nothing to do with lazy or sick: fatigue, mental health, or neurodivergent symptoms (including for people who aren’t typically neurodivergent). Today we’re going to tackle the […]
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Doing my weekly journalling and I’m starting May this week. Loving this quote from Hilary Collier Rushford: As a stylist, I teach about the chicness of breathing room. A collar left open, a cuff rolled up. We see it in a home that isn’t overly crowded with stuff, has room to easily relax on the
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“Overheard” this conversation on a Discord server I’m part of (whee, look at me learning new technology and finding communities without social media!*) this evening where the conversational participants were like eh, positive affirmations always sound so stupid to me, and I’m like OH HEY HI I CAN HELP WITH THIS I KNOW WHY. *
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So almost every part of me was shocked this morning when the psychologist’s response to ‘I’m functioning right at my capacity now due to these specific life rolls but the pinch point is just the next two months so I just need to put my Big Girl Panties on and survive for 8 weeks’ was
In a way, it’s freelancer’s privilege; in another, it’s an awful liminality between health and frailty, with the spectre of mortality looming large over all. Partly, also, it’s sleep deprivation at this point, as I’ve barely slept since Boxing Day due to what I shall euphemistically call ‘medication side effects’. Regardless of what’s causing it,
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Well, I’ve been a bit remiss in getting here to tell you about it, but HURRAH! Christmas Miracle Is Just A Saying is HERE!! Officially it released on 25 November, but hey, better late than never, right? This sparkling, chatty little story came about because I had to write a story for a prompt for
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My mailing list is broken. It’s been broken since, like, Easter, and I still have not managed to summon the wherewithal to lodge sufficient relevant helpdesk requests to get the thing fixed. I’ve tried a few times, but nothing so far has worked, and then *jazz hands* there was cancer and things just got too
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I just learned of this tonight and, although Holly would no doubt be horrified, sobbed for a good 10 – 15 mins, including on the phone to my husband, who – not noted for his knowledge of/familiarity with writerly people – replied with, “Oh, I’m so sorry, I know how much she meant to you.”
Author Holly Lisle Has Passed Away, And A Piece Of Me Is Broken Read More »
It’s an on-going deliberation for many of us, I think, and one that has become/is becoming particularly pertinent in my life right now: what’s the difference between inertia and rest? We’re badly primed to understand this difference in modern western capitalist society, which demands we give account (usually in monetary terms) for every second of
I’m here writing again at bed time because – shockingly enough – ending the night on my phone is not doing wonders for my already difficult sleep, while going through a routine of shower-exercise-write-read before bed seems to be making a difference. WHO KNEW, RIGHT. I have nothing particular to say, but that’s also not
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