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Once again, I am a late bloomer. I've resisted the blogging boom,for many reasons, none of them good. Now I see blogging for what it is -- a journal or diary. I've been a diarist most of my life. So why not blog?
My life is fairly boring. i don't work, thanks to a mild stroke s decade ago and a distraught husbnd who wanted to remove all stress from my life.
I was a community volunteer for many years, but it left me exhausted. This is the first year I'm not volunteering in nything.
Of course, you can't remove stress t when you have children.
Anyway, I qualified for Social Security Disability.
however, I do not consisder myself to be disabled. I have no paralysis from the stoke, except for general weakness in my left hand.
At the beginning of my recovery I went hrough terrifying dizzy spells That is gone now.
I consider myself to be a writer, having published two dozen short stories and non fiction pieces in various pring magazines.
I suppose the main reason I'm getting into blogging is that I want to keep writing, and, hopefully, selling. I want to write, but sometimes can't make myself get up and sit myself in front of the vcomputer.
Did i mention depression? That is a gift fvrom the stroke.
However, my family tree is riddled with depression, bipolar disorder, and suicides.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm bipolar -- I see depression aw a huge wagon wheel.which constantly moves in circles.On bad days I see myself on the bottom of the wheel, under it, actually, crushed into the ground.
on goog days i'm riding on top of the wheel.
Mostly, though, I'm riding the spokes, happily and safely in the middle.
Back to my boring life.
I write, clean house, and take care of my husband who is recoverying from hand surgery (Dupuytren's Disease). When the left hand is healed, he will have surgery on the right hand, followed by bunionectomies on both feet and surgery to straighten his toes.
My twenty-something son still lvies at home. He hasn't discoveres his niche in life yet, but he keeps all the mechanical things running here and for his grandparents.
I also have daughter, a single parent, no longer lives at home.
The joy of my life is my two grandbabies, Jade 27 months, and Jude, 15 months. They keep me young.
I currenly am nursing an absessed tooth which will be extracted on Wednesday, the 23rd. I know that a root canal would save thetooth, but I haven't the money or patience for that. I'd rather have the tooth pulled and be done with it.

.I aso am an adopted mother to a very spoiled shih tzu nmed Gremlin,and an eqally spoiled cat of no particular breed, named Harley.
Harley is setting on the deesk as i write with his hind pawns draped over the left end of the keyboard. Occasionally, I have to stop and bush his feet away.