Category Archives: #hiatus

Day Four Card Pull

ALL THAT GLITTERS 16 Essential meanings: A need to see beyond the superficial; the desire to don a mask or dress something up to disguise its true nature; trying to be something you’re not; chasing after every sparkling new thing; being mercurial. Protection message: This is a signal to walk away from what you’re contemplating. There isContinue reading “Day Four Card Pull”

Hiatus Day Four – Random Writing

Today marks the fourth day of my sabbatical from all social media. I have found myself in a sense of ease about the hiatus and realize that it’s a good thing to take a break from time to time. This is just a block of random writing and thoughts as I sit here on thisContinue reading “Hiatus Day Four – Random Writing”

Hiatus Day Three – Reflections

It’s day three of my time away from social media. You truly don’t realize how much something is a part of your daily life until it’s not there any more. Countless times, I’ve looked on my phone, only to remember I’ve removed all those social apps. I saw a sunrise the other day I wantedContinue reading “Hiatus Day Three – Reflections”

The Hiatus Begins…Day One

Today marks the first day of my Lenten hiatus from all social media. Around this time of day, I’m usually checking Facebook memories and getting my usual posts of the day, which include “Twenty-Four Hours a Day” and “Language of Letting Go,” as well as a punny that I obtain from the past or aContinue reading “The Hiatus Begins…Day One”

Lenten Sabbatical from Social Media

In past years, I’ve taken a leave of absence from social media during the season of Lent. In looking at this year’s calendar, I hadn’t realized the Lenten season starts on Valentines Day. Given the fact it was already February 9th, I had to decide if indeed I would be absent from all social mediaContinue reading “Lenten Sabbatical from Social Media”

Time for a Break from it all…

Part One – Summation of this past school year…. My last day of teaching for the school year was last Friday, May 26th. I served in two interim positions this school year, one at the beginning and the other covering the last half of the school year. I had several one-day assignments thrown in betweenContinue reading “Time for a Break from it all…”

100 Days of Writing – Day Eighty-Eight

My thoughts were flowing tonight as I wrote in my journal…and I share those words here. I am running myself ragged pondering all that my mind wants to understand. I look at the events of the past and then the present circumstances – things as they are – trying to understand it all. But thenContinue reading “100 Days of Writing – Day Eighty-Eight”

Daily Writing Prompt

I have a particular type of weather in mind when I hear this question. Unfortunately, its occurrences are few and far apart. I remember back when I was a child, it used to snow a whole lot more than it does now. And when I say snow, I clarify by saying a major snow ofContinue reading “Daily Writing Prompt”

100 Days of Writing – Day Eighty-Six

I’ve been writing in a journal for the past twenty-plus years. It was a suggestion from a therapist who I was seeing at the time. Little did I realize at the time what an important part of my life it would become. I found a journal the other day that I never had finished. IContinue reading “100 Days of Writing – Day Eighty-Six”