Mental illnesses are invariably tricky. With many physical illnesses or diseases, the symptoms are fairly cut and dry—or there are scientific, diagnostic tests that prove you do or don’t have a given condition. But a mental illness, well, that’s another story. Because mental illnesses are linked with our thoughts and feelings, we tend to wallow…
Basically, this image represents how my week has gone so far. My husband had to go out of town for work for the first half of the week. Work trips used to be no big deal for me. Frankly, they were almost a relief or a kind of “vacation”—yes, I had to take care of the…
The other day I posted a “status” on my personal Facebook account which received many comments and various types of likes.
Life is busy, right? I mean, don’t you ever get overwhelmed with all of the many things you have to do? Who doesn’t? Well, after some deliberation, I am going to be cutting back on the blog a tiny bit, moving from five posts a week to three.
We had a neighbor once who would level with me about cleaners. She would tell me that bleach was the only thing that really sanitized things properly. Bleach. That was it. Previously, I had been hesitant about using bleach, probably because on my mission I tried to bleach some of my more well used underwear (garments),…