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I am Not Ignoring You, I am Just in a Zone!

Several years ago, someone emailed me saying that she was happy to find someone else out there in the world who was not only a burn survivor but also deaf. Unfortunately, at the time I received the email, I was hip-deep working on one of my many projects, so it was some time before I was able to respond to her email. And when I finally did, she read me the Riot Act for taking so long to respond to her email. I tried apologizing but, unfortunately, never heard from this person again.   This is not the first time this has happened. It has happened with MANY other people getting upset over my very delayed replies to their messages.   Thankfully, I have friends who are more understanding about my neurodiverse ways, as well as my VERY BUSY life, so they don’t make a federal case out of me taking some time to get back to them. Still, I feel guilty about being unable to respond to messages and then jump right back in to whatever else I was doing.   Take today, for ex...
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Books Read in April

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  As busy as the month of April has been, I am grateful that I still found the time to read. And I was especially grateful to be able to even read at all since I had eye surgery on the first. Because this was the first time I have ever had cataract surgery, I didn’t know what to expect. I was worried I would have a difficult time adjusting to reading with both of my eyes again.   But, no, that’s not what happened at all.   Fortunately, my eye surgery was a success, and vision was restored to my right eye. Hooray!   As for the adjustment to reading with BOTH of my eyes again instead of just with one eye, as I had been doing for nearly a year? It was a piece of cake. In fact, there was no trouble at all! It’s just like riding a bicycle; it came back to me. The body remembered.   Even so, I could really tell the difference between reading with both eyes instead of reading with just one eye. It is SO MUCH BETTER! Seriously, I think I might even be ...
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This is My Life – For Now!

It used to be that I hated doing the same thing day after day. I used to want variety in my days, embracing surprises and random acts. Just doing something different every day.   These days, however, I am more likely to embrace familiarity. I have the same expectations for the same things during my day when it is the week, as well as when it is the weekend.   During the week, I look forward to another day of the following things:   Writing SOMETHING (a blog post, short story, poetry, an article, etc.) Doing work for Twisted Dreams Press/Dreamweaver Press Working on the SPARREW newsletter Working on book reviews   I also try to squeeze in working on one of my book WIPs as well as doing research, either for a book or an article, during the week. But sometimes, I don’t have enough energy left to do that.   Of course, I do other things besides that stuff. I’m outside caring for my plants, on the couch reading other books or magazines, movin...
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With Gratitude

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  They say that it takes a village to make things happen. But in my case, it took 40 people to help me to afford the cost of undergoing corrective eye surgery.   Last year, during the summer, I noticed that I was having vision problems. I like to look up at the moon, and during such occasions, I would see a black spot in the center when looking at the moon with my right eye. I thought this was unusual. I checked with my left eye, and there was no black spot. But with my right eye, there was. This troubled me, so I started testing the vision with my right eye in other circumstances. I would try to look at things only with my right eye, but what I saw was blurry.   Don’t get me started on the many mishaps I ran into when trying to drive.   So, at one point, I texted my husband, “I think there is something wrong with my right eye.”   I made an appointment with the ophthalmologist and got my vision checked. Turned out that I had Stage 3 glaucoma in...
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