I struggle with general anxiety disorder, which can manifest itself in unpleasant ways. For years, my main coping skill was my eating disorder. It’s hard to obsess about anything else when you’re bingeing and purging. Eating disorders, however, get you dead, and though I’ve tried to “shuck off this mortal coil” while in the pit of despair, I mostly don’t want to be gone. Enter … Continue reading Reblog: A Nickel For Your Presence.
When I left home for university at nineteen, packed among my possessions was a journal. “A woman’s notebook, being a blank book with quotes by women” would become my first official diary, though not my last. If I’d been choosing one myself, I’d have picked something different: this one had half-size pages and a glued binding. I like spiral notebooks that don’t cause hand cramps … Continue reading A woman’s notebook: journalling and some very dramatic poetry.
The times, they are a-changin‘, not just societally, but for me personally as well. I’m in flux; I feel like I’m standing on unstable ground. Everything is up in the air. Fluidity isn’t my preferred lifestyle: I’m not a fan of uncertainty at the best of times, and a dying parent is not the best of times. I thought I built my house on rock … Continue reading Change, Movies, and the Love List.
It’s interesting: I’ve been wanting some tips for taking pictures with my iPhone (I have some birds I want to digitally capture, though how I turned into a bird lady still mystifies me) when poof! the universe handed me what I need. Life’s like that sometimes. Perhaps the convenient synchronicity is an apology for the crappy stuff the universe regularly bestows? Probably not. Coincidences remain … Continue reading Reblog: 5 Phone Photography Tips for Beginners — Wandering Ambivert
From Famine to Feast 