Just Me

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...

  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...