Events of Recent Months

It's bloody cold out there.

I’m beginning to think that moving the blog to an inner page was an error. No one is commenting, so I’m uncertain if anyone is reading. If you are, please leave a comment (at the blog) so that I know about it. Life has been a roller coaster since I started school in September. It’s Continue reading →

Decals Needed!

Get spooky with it!

Wow, has it really been five weeks since I did a blog post? School is really cutting into my time, but I hadn’t realized it had been so long. My apologies; I’m working on a schedule to keep me on top of my bazillion projects and their various tasks, but it’s not in use yet, Continue reading →

Another Little Essay on Online Friends

I guess there's a dawn. Eventually.

A Google+ friend shared an article on Social Media, Pretend Friends, and the Lie of False Intimacy. This is a topic I’ve written on before, but it’s always interesting to have the point brought home in a new way. The recent suicide of Trey Pennington, whom I did not know, belies the assumed friendship that Continue reading →

But I was duped!

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Over the last twenty four hours, I have seen a lot of discussions about victims, scammers and who is really at fault. It is unfortunate to say but there are dishonest people in nearly every profession and dishonest clients that seek out services as well. In the world of counselling (including therapeutic, spiritual and psychic) Continue reading →

Looking for the Light at the End of the Tunnel

For the return of Innocence.

I’ve been posting a lot of my more trivial stuff on Google+, but this post definitely doesn’t belong there. One thing I’ve noticed about social networks — they promote superficiality of a sort. Not that the posts are meaningless or pointless (well, some are), but there’s not a lot of sharing of the self in Continue reading →

In Which There’s Ow

Sometimes I feel this vulnerable.

I think I’ve developed an aversion to blogging. It’s really weird, because I have also seen more of a shift (for me, anyway) toward the social networking stuff. Google+ is like blogging, streamlined. But it’s not very personal, and my attraction to blogging was always to express myself, particularly the deeper and grittier stuff that Continue reading →

All is Well

Tastes like chicken!

I had my colonoscopy this morning, along with an unexpected endoscopy down my throat to look at my stomach, etc. The doctor found one small polyp in my colon and removed it, and sent it out for biopsy. She is doing this to check for wheat allergy. She said there was no sign of cancer. Continue reading →

Colorectal Cancer Stuff, and Eww

It's all gonna be okay, right?

Don’t I pick the best subject lines? (Not so much.) I have Crohn’s Disease (since 1993) and a family history of colorectal cancer. I hadn’t seen a gastroenterologist since 2007; I used to see one doctor who retired, and I was passed over to his colleague, who turned out to be a jerk, so I Continue reading →

You Know What? Screw This.

Spit hiss snarl

I’ve been back online three days, and already there’s stupid drama that I don’t want to deal with. What am I — a magnet? Why do I care what other people think? I mean, really. Meridjet has been accused of being arrogant and superior and of talking down to people in a LiveJournal community. This Continue reading →

Human Nature

Bloom where you are planted.

I posted this in response to a friend’s locked LiveJournal post. I’d like to share it here, intact, as a snapshot of my views, which perhaps I will expound upon. But you’ve probably heard it here before, in any case. I see a lot of evidence of what I’ve come to believe is the most Continue reading →

Sheta’s Original Tarot Spreads

It's magic!

Last week, when Laramie was here, I was giving him lessons in tarot and I wrote a couple of new spreads I thought I’d share with you, along with my gold standard, the “Extended Celtic Cross,” which developed many years ago out of my need to do more than the old standby (which I actually Continue reading →

Rethink Required

I think I need a hug.

I have come to the reluctant conclusion that concerts are bad for me. I’ve been to three in the last two years, and they always leave me feeling depressed and emotionally volatile, as if they’ve exposed some secret emptiness that I wasn’t aware of til after the show… which then becomes this gaping maw that Continue reading →

New Office!

Oh yeah, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope yours was splendid.

Well, the new office is almost finished. It looks amazing! So much better than before. I still have to hang the drapes, clean the outsides of the windows (and scrape the paint off the door windows), and move in my office supplies, computer (which is now in here and I am sitting at my new Continue reading →

Converting a New Office

If only I could get a piper to lead all this clutter away...

I’ve had this room, since moving into this converted-garage apartment, that’s just inside the front door. It was originally conceived as a dining area, but it turned into a clutter magnet. The built-in benches were built on top of the foundation rather than putting tile down first (it had to be done that way at Continue reading →

Retrospective Moments != Me

You complete me.

When I was in my mid-teens, I lived in Orlando, Florida. We moved there when I was 14 and I lived there for two very troubled years. My time there began amongst my peers with a third-degree interview (“Do you turn on?” was a key question.) and a fight of 8 against 1 (me) that Continue reading →

Pain = Bliss. Poetry.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

Sometimes. I just had some of that. I wrote this sort of poem, like I used to do back in the day when I processed that way (25 years ago!). It’s not very polished. I could fall into forever Endless turns and flips of lazy stretching for the updraft buoyed by the fire in my Continue reading →

For My Records, Tarot Reading

Unless, of course, you are crazy interested in me.

I asked the Osho Zen Tarot generator: “What direction should I go in to get things running smoothly in my life and to a lucrative result?” Normally, I choose the entire deck but I accidentally clicked “Major Arcana only” and didn’t realize it til I was reading the third card. But I decided to let Continue reading →