Last Tuesday, a very kind and caring psychologist confirmed what I have known for the last 4 years. I am autistic and have been for the last 48 years. Autism as a condition has been recognized as a condition since 1943. Today, diagnosis comes with levels instead of labels. The old systems of labeling people …
Books I Love Since 2012, I have been participating in the Goodreads - Reading Challenge and while I am constantly reading I've only completed it twice officially. A couple of times, I simply forgot to enter the books after I read them (2015, I am looking at you.). Photo by ready made on Pexels.com This …
Yesterday, a kind librarian gifted me a book, Ramona Quimby ~ Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. One of my very favorite books when I was age 8. I remember reading this on the bus riding to elementary school. My mom had decided that since my big brother was no longer walking with me to school …
Came home early to a quiet house and two pooches wagging their tails, well one was. The second pup, my Luke, meandered in a few minutes after his legs stiff from a long hard nap. Ready for another one if I was game. The momentum of moment spent, I was game. These false summer days …
Can I call again? Of course. Sometimes when a friend calls they don't need advice. They need you to listen and reassure them that they aren't a bad person for setting boundaries. You listen and speak when called. You listen and don't insert yourself. You listen and when you expect that the process will begin …
There is no air-conditioning in my sanctum this evening. There hasn't been air-conditioning here for two weeks. While living in Florida as I did five years ago would have made this experience a new level of hell and I would have had to flee with Luke for a cooler desk upon which to procrastinate; in …
Everyday I have a simple goal. Write a hundred words a day. A hundred words closer to my next book/blog or article. For the last two weeks, I've been on break from the day job and I've virtually ignored my keyboard except for five hundred words that the muse demanded that I write. s Still, …
Since 2012, I have been taking part in Goodreads Reading Challenge and in that time I've only complete the challenge twice (2016 & 2020). This is far better than my attempts to write 50,000 words in a month and complete National Novel Writing Month each year. (Hint: I haven't finished once.) The Mega To Be …
Where do you get your ideas?Simple, I have a machine in my house built from spare parts found on the side of the road and at yard sales that I crank up whenever I am in need of an idea. The crank is the most important part. The ones from Victrola's are the best.
Coming into work, I saw a penny on the ground. It was tails up, bad luck. But then the words of one of my godfather's rung in my ears, "Who am I tell the universe that I don't need money?" Or abundance. So I picked it up That penny sat on my desk at home …
Lucinda Rose 